PHYS 514 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Schedule

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Tentative Schedule. Potential topics for TBA lectures include: cavity QED, ion traps, Rydberg atoms, optical lattices, atom-like emitters/artificial atoms, quantum simulation, quantum memory, quantum networking

Week Date Lecture Reading Homework
1
Monday
8/22/2020
      
Tuesday
8/23/2020
 Intro; Hydrogen    
Wednesday
8/24/2020
      
Thursday
8/25/2020
 Fine Structure; Lamb shift    
Friday
8/26/2020
      
2
Monday
8/29/2020
      
Tuesday
8/30/2020
 Helium    
Wednesday
8/31/2020
      
Thursday
91//2020
 Alkalis    
Friday
9/2/2020
      
3
Monday
9/5/2020
      
Tuesday
9/6/2020
 Hyperfine structure    
Wednesday
9/7/2020
      
Thursday
9/8/2020
 Magnetic fields; Zeeman effects    
Friday
9/9/2020
     HW 1 due
4
Monday
9/12/2020
      
Tuesday
9/13/2020
 Start dynamics, Two-level systems    
Wednesday
9/14/2020
      
Thursday
9/15/2020
 Electric dipole transitions, Rabi dynamics    
Friday
9/16/2020
      
5
Monday
9/19/2020
      
Tuesday
9/20/2020
 Ramsey spectroscopy, dressed states, adiabatic processes    
Wednesday
9/21/2020
      
Thursday
9/22/2020
 Quantization of the EM field, fock basis    
Friday
9/23/2020
     HW 2 due
6
Monday
9/26/2020
      
Tuesday
9/27/2020

spontaneous emission, density matrices

    
Wednesday
9/28/2020
      
Thursday
9/29/2020

open quantum systems, master equation, optical bloch equation

    
Friday
9/30/2020
      
7
Monday
10/3/2020
      
Tuesday
10/4/2020

open quantum systems, master equation, optical bloch equation continued

    
Wednesday
10/5/2020
      
Thursday
10/6/2020
 saturation/radiative broadening, 3 level atoms    
Friday
10/7/2020
     HW 3 due
8
Monday
10/10/2020
      
Tuesday
10/11/2020

doppler broadening, start laser cooling

    
Wednesday
10/12/2020
      
Thursday
10/13/2020

MOTs and light shifts

    
Friday
10/14/2020
     Paper approval due
9
Monday
10/17/2020
      
Tuesday
10/18/2020
 sub-Doppler cooling    
Wednesday
10/19/2020
      
Thursday
10/20/2020

optical traps and evaporative cooling

    
Friday
10/21/2020
     HW 4 due
10
Monday
10/24/2020
      
Tuesday
10/25/2020
 Degenerate gases    
Wednesday
10/26/2020
      
Thursday
10/27/2020
 TBA    
Friday
10/28/2020
     Talk abstract due
11
Monday
10/31/2020
      
Tuesday
11//2020
 Guest lecturer    
Wednesday
11/2/2020
      
Thursday
11/3/2020
 Guest lecturer    
Friday
11/4/2020
     HW 5 due
12
Monday
11/7/2020
      
Tuesday
11/8/2020
 TBA    
Wednesday
11/9/2020
      
Thursday
11/10/2020
 TBA    
Friday
11/11/2020
      
13
Monday
11/14/2020
      
Tuesday
11/15/2020
 TBA    
Wednesday
11/16/2020
      
Thursday
11/17/2020
 TBA    
Friday
11/18/2020
     HW 6 due
14
Monday
11/21/2020
      
Tuesday
11/22/2020
 NO CLASS    
Wednesday
11/23/2020
      
Thursday
11/24/2020
 NO CLASS    
Friday
11/25/2020
      
15
Monday
11/28/2020
      
Tuesday
11/29/2020
 Presentations    
Wednesday
11/30/2020
      
Thursday
12/1/2020
 Presentations    
Friday
12/2/2020
      
16
Monday
12/5/2020
      
Tuesday
12/6/2020
 Presentations    
Wednesday
12/7/2020
      
Thursday
12/8/2020
      
17 Final Information