MIT 8.422 Atomic and Optical Physics II, Spring 2013
This is the second of a two-semester subject sequence beginning with Atomic and Optical Physics I (8.421) that provides the foundations for contemporary research in selected areas of atomic and optical physics. Created by MIT OpenCourseWare .
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1: Introduction to Atomic Physics
2: QED Hamiltonian
3: Quantum description of light, Part 1
4: Quantum description of light, Part 2
5: Non-classical light, squeezing, Part 1
6: Non-classical light, squeezing, Part 2
7: Single photons, Part 1
8: Single photons, Part 2
9: Entangled states
10: Metrology, shot noise and Heisenberg limit, Part 1
11: Metrology, shot noise and Heisenberg limit, Part 2
12: g(2) for atoms and light
13: Diagrams for light-atom interactions
14: van der Waals and Casimir interactions
15: Casimir force
16: Resonant interactions
17: Derivation of optical Bloch equations
18: Solutions of optical Bloch equations, Part 1
19: Solutions of optical Bloch equations, Part 2
20: Unraveling Open System Quantum Dynamics
21: Light forces, Part 1
22: Light forces, Part 2
23: Dressed atom, Part 1
24: Dressed atom, Part 2
25: Techniques for ultralow temperatures
26: Bose gases
27: Fermi gases, BEC-BCS crossover
28: Ion trapping and quantum gates