After successful completion of the course, students are able to read and understand scientific literature about ultra cold atoms and discuss the physics of ultra cold quantum matter. The lecture prepares for the scientific work with ultra cold quantujm mattter in the Vorbereitungspraktika, a master or PhD thesis.
Topics include: Atom-Light interaction, optical Bloch equations, quantum Monte Carlo methods, coupled 2-level systems and adiabatic dressed states, simple cavity QED, laser cooling and trapping, magnetic trapping, ion traps, slow light, precision spectroscopy and atomic clocks, ultra cold collisions, BEC
The cours consitst of two distict parts. Each theme will be fiorst presented in a series of lectures (typical 2-4 lectures). The second part consists of stuicdent talks on selected topics where the science is used. Through the preparation of the talks and the discussions during the presentations we will apply the content of the lectures directly and enhance and supplement the knowledge presented in the lectures.
72 hour home exam
write a short term-paper (max 4 pages) on a recent scientific publication
All tools (books, papers, lecture notes ... ) are allowed except to talk to other other people
after the 72 hour period: Short discussion on the term paper to determine the grade.
“Quantum Theory of Light”, R Loudon
“Laser Cooling and Trapping”, H. Metcalf and P. Van derStraten
“Physics of Atoms and Molecules”, B. Bransden and C. Joachain
“Experimentalphysik III”, W. Demtröder
“Quantum Optics”, M. Scully and M. Zubairy
Articles and transparencies will be posted on www.atomchip.org
