Universität Potsdam
Institut für Physik
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24/25
14476 Potsdam-Golm
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Wintersemester 2016/17 | |
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Einführung in die Quantenoptik I | |
Introduction to Quantum Optics I
Dozent: Carsten HenkelDie Vorlesung ist 2-stündig:
- jeden Dienstag um 12.15 Uhr, in Raum 2.28.2.080
Übung / Problem session:
jeden zweiten Donnerstag um 16.15 Uhr, in Raum 2.28.2.080
Beginn: Do 27. Okt, 16.15 Uhr
Übungsleiter: Andreas Kurcz- Übungsblätter werden hier zur Verfügung gestellt. / Problem sheets available here for download.
- List of Questions
- Problem Set 01 (Discussion Thu 27 Oct 16)
- Problem Set 02 (Discussion Thu 10 Nov 16)
- Problem Set 03 (Discussion Thu 24 Nov 16)
- Problem Set 04 (Discussion Thu 08 Dec 16)
- Problem Set 05 (Discussion Thu 12 Jan 17)
- Problem Set 06 (Discussion Thu 19 Jan 17)
- Problem Set 07 (Discussion Thu 09 Feb 17)
Material zur Vorlesung:
- Informationsblatt: LP, SWS, Themen für Vorträge
- Moodle platform with online material, small programs, copies from the literature.
- Skriptum: wird hier im Lauf des Semesters bereitgestellt. Frühere Versionen sind weiter verfügbar.
- Kap.1: Licht-Materie-Wechselwirkung, Bloch-Gleichungen, gemischte Zustände
- Kap.2: Quantisierung des Strahlungsfelds, Photonen, Fock-Raum, thermische Strahlung, spontaner Zerfall, Vakuum-Fluktuationen
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Literatur:
Meystre & Sargent III
Berman & Malinovsky
Scully & Zubairy
Mandel & Wolf
Cohen-Tannoudji, Dupont-Roc & Grynberg, "Atoms and Photons" (2 Bände)
Gerry & Knight
Vogel, Welsch & Wallentowitz
Orszag
Kalender und Themen
| Inhalt | |
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| 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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