Universität Potsdam
Institut für Physik
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24/25
14476 Potsdam-Golm
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Wintersemester 2019/20 | |
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Einführung in die Quantenoptik I | |
Einführung in die Quantenoptik I
Teacher: Carsten HenkelThe Lecture takes 2 hours:
- Tuesday, 10h15 - 11h45, in Room 2.28.2.080
Exercises
Thursday, 15h00 - 15h45, in Room 2.28.0.080
- Problem Set 01 (Discussion Thu 17/24 Oct 19) .pdf
- Problem Set 02 (Discussion Thu 07 Nov 19) .pdf
- Problem Set 03 (Discussion Thu 21 Nov 19)
.pdf
Python script that solves the optical Bloch equations. - Problem Set 04 (Discussion Thu 05 Dec 19) .pdf
- Problem Set 05 (Discussion Thu 19 Dec 19) .pdf
- Problem Set 06 (Discussion Thu 09 Jan 19) .pdf
- Problem Set 07 (Discussion Thu 23 or 30 Jan 20) .pdf (formula (7.3) corrected)
Skriptum, Notizen
Themen für Vorträge und weitere Hinweise
Kap. I:
Materie-Licht-Wechselwirkung .pdf (1.4 MB)
Kap. II:
Feldquantisierung und Photodetektion .pdf (1.1 MB)
Kap. III:
Photodetektion und Mastergleichungen .pdf (499 kB)
Literature
Meystre & Sargent IIIBerman & Malinovsky
Yanhua Shih
John C. Garrison
Scully & Zubairy
Mandel & Wolf
Cohen-Tannoudji, Dupont-Roc & Grynberg, "Atoms and Photons" (2 Bände)
Gerry & Knight
Vogel, Welsch & Wallentowitz
Walls & Milburn
[ Miguel Orszag ]
Calendar and Topics
| Contents | |
|---|---|
| Tue 15 Oct | Overview, Atom-Light-Interaction in minimal coupling Board 1 Board 2 Board 3 |
| Do 17 Oct | (Ü) typical fields, superposition states |
| Tue 22 Oct | Electric dipole
coupling vs minimal coupling. Local U(1) phase symmetry.
Time-dependent perturbation theory.
Atom-Light-Interaction in electric dipole coupling
Board 1 Board 2 Board 3 Board 4 |
| Thu 17 Oct | (Ü with Timo F.) |
| Tue 29 Oct | Resonance approximation,
two-level effective Hamiltonian, Rabi oscillations.
Board 1 Board 2 Board 3 Board 4 |
| Tue 05 Nov | Bloch vector representation
of Rabi oscillations. Pure and mixed states.
Board 1-4 |
| Thu 07 Nov | (Ü) |
| Tue 12 Nov | Spin resonance language
for a two-level system: effective magnetic field, rotating frame.
Relaxation processes: spontaneous emission, dephasing, geometric
description: contraction of the Bloch sphere.
Board 1 Board 2 Board 3 Board 4 |
| Thu 14 Nov | (Ü) |
| Tue 19 Nov | Macroscopic two-level medium:
Bloch-Lorenz model for a laser. Nonlinearity: due to inversion, saturation.
Board 1 Board 2 |
| Thu 21 Nov | (Ü) |
| Tue 26 Nov | Field
quantisation: photon as elementary excitation of field mode.
Mode quadratures, field energy.
Board 1 Board 2 Board 3 Board 4 |
| Thu 28 Nov | (Ü) |
| Tue 03 Dec | Quantum states of light: Fock (number) states, one-photon states (in
different mode bases), two-photon states (entanglement), thermal states
(thermal equilibrium, density operator with Boltzmann weights).
Board 1 Board 2 Board 3 |
| Thu 05 Dec | (Ü) |
| Tue 10 Dec | Interaction with the quantized field: Jaynes-Cummings-Paul
model, dressed levels and radiative linewidth
Board 1 Board 2 Board 3 Board 4 |
| Thu 12 Dec | (Ü) |
| Tue 17 Dec | Vacuum fluctuations and their spectrum.
Board 1 Board 2 Board 3 Board 4 |
| Thu 19 Dec | (Ü) |
| Tue 07 Jan | Master equation for two-level system:
spontaneous emission and photodetection
Board 1 Board 2 Board 3 |
| Thu 09 Jan | (Ü) |
| Tue 14 Jan | Master equation for populations: spontaneous decay,
correlations and spectrum. Glauber's model of a photodetector
Board 1 Board 2 Board 3 Board 4 |
| Thu 16 Jan | (Ü) |
| Tue 21 Jan | Beam splitter: transformation of states, operators, Hong-Ou-Mandel
interference ("bunching"). Homodyne measurements: local oscillator,
quadrature measurements.
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| Thu 23 Jan | (Ü) |
| Tue 28 Jan | Distribution functions for quadratures: Q-, Wigner- and P-function.
Non-classical states of light.
Collapse and Revival: one atom and a single-mode field in a coherent
state. Experiment with microwave cavity and Rydberg atoms.
Measurement of the refractive index of a single atom.
Board 1 Board 2 Board 3 Board 4 |
| Thu 30 Jan | (Ü) talk by Rick: Rydberg atoms and molecules |
| Tue 04 Feb | Collapse and Revival: with thermal state. Current projects. |
| Thu 06 Feb |
(Ü)
talk by Momen: Hanbury Brown-Twiss intensity interferometry
talk by Mathis: laser cooling of atomic gases |
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