PHYS514 Lecture Notes

Lecture 1 (8/27)

wavefunctions.nb

Powerpoint slides

Lecture 2 (8/29)

Lecture 3 (9/3)

slides from class

paper on PNC by Wieman

Lecture 4 (9/5)

hyperfine structure

Lecture 5 (9/10)

Lecture 6 (9/12)

spin one-half terminology

classical magnetic resonance

bloch.py (you need VPython to run this)

Lecture 7 (9/19)

quantum two-level problem

spherical tensor basis cheat sheat

Alicia Kollar's notes on matrix elements and transitions in H

Lecture 8 (9/26)

density matrices

Lecture 9 (10/1)

classical atom & classical light

Lecture 10 (10/3)

quantum atom & classical light

notes on irreducible tensors

Lecture 11 (10/7, 10/10)

AC Stark Effect / light shift

Lecture 12 (10/15)

Lecture 13 (10/22)

magnetic trapping & evaporative cooling

Lecture 14 (10/24)

Ultracold collisions

Lecture 15 (11/5)

BECs and Fermi gases

slides from lecture

Lecture 16 (11/7)

strongly interacting Fermi gases

Hubbard/Optical lattice slides

Lecture 17 (11/12, 11/14)

Quantization of the EM field

Ion traps and stimulated Raman transitions

notes on ion traps

notes on stimulated Raman transitions