Quantum Optics Group at the University of Potsdam


Lehrveranstaltungen
	Wintersemester 2016/17
		Einführung in die Quantenoptik I

Dozent: Carsten Henkel
Die Vorlesung ist 2-stündig:

The lecture may be held in English on request.

Übung / Problem session:

Literatur

	Inhalt
Tue 18 Oct	Überblick / Overview
Tue 25 Oct	Typical experiments in matter-light interactions: absorption, interference, correlations.
Thu 27 Oct	Problem session
Tue 01 Nov	Quantum mechanics of two-level systems: observables, dipole coupling, minimal coupling.
Tue 08 Nov	Time evolution: atom-laser Hamiltonian, damping (spontaneous emission, dephasing), Rabi oscillation.
Thu 10 Nov	Problem session
Tue 15 Nov	Resonance approximation (RWA). Bloch sphere. Pure and mixed states, spin language, short-pulse preparation.
Tue 22 Nov	Dynamics with Bloch equations: Rabi rotation, spontaneous decay, dephasing, with animations.
Thu 24 Nov	Problem session
Tue 29 Nov	Pure states, mixed states. Complex Rabi frequency.
Tue 06 Dec	Short pulse excitation: electronic and vibrational quantum dynamics
Thu 08 Dec	Problem session
Tue 13 Dec	Field quantization: Fock-Hilbert space, scalar product and vacuum, one-, two- ... photon sectors
Tue 03 Jan	Field operators, observables, correspondences, zero-point energy
Tue 10 Jan	Thermal radiation: density operator, averages of observables, sum over polarizations
Thu 12 Jan	Problem session
Tue 17 Jan	Student talk: Casimir energy. Planck spectrum of blackbody radiation.
Thu 19 Jan	Problem session
Tue 24 Jan	Student talks: Rydberg atoms, optomechanics.
Tue 31 Jan	Lecture cancelled
Tue 07 Feb	Spontaneous emission rate and asymmetric vacuum spectrum. Concluding remarks.
Thu 09 Feb	Problem session

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