PHYS 514 Fall 2023
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
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| 1 |
Monday
8/21/2023 |
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Tuesday
8/22/2023 |
Intro; Hydrogen | |||
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Wednesday
8/23/2023 |
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Thursday
8/24/2023 |
Brief intro to transitions; Fine Structure | |||
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Friday
8/25/2023 |
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| 2 |
Monday
8/28/2023 |
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Tuesday
8/29/2023 |
Helium | |||
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Wednesday
8/30/2023 |
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Thursday
8/31/2023 |
Alkalis | |||
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Friday
9/1/2023 |
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| 3 |
Monday
9/4/2023 |
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Tuesday
9/5/2023 |
Hyperfine structure | |||
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Wednesday
9/6/2023 |
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Thursday
9/7/2023 |
Magnetic fields; Zeeman effects | |||
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Friday
9/8/2023 |
HW 1 due | |||
| 4 |
Monday
9/11/2023 |
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Tuesday
9/12/2023 |
Start dynamics, Two-level systems | |||
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Wednesday
9/13/2023 |
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Thursday
9/14/2023 |
Electric dipole transitions | |||
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Friday
9/15/2023 |
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| 5 |
Monday
9/18/2023 |
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Tuesday
9/19/2023 |
Rabi dynamics | |||
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Wednesday
9/20/2023 |
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Thursday
9/21/2023 |
Ramsey spectroscopy, dressed states, adiabatic processes | |||
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Friday
9/22/2023 |
HW 2 due | |||
| 6 |
Monday
9/25/2023 |
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Tuesday
9/26/2023 |
Quantization of the EM field, fock basis |
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Wednesday
9/27/2023 |
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Thursday
9/28/2023 |
spontaneous emission, density matrices |
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Friday
929/2023 |
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| 7 |
Monday
10/2/2023 |
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Tuesday
10/3/2023 |
open quantum systems, master equation, optical bloch equation |
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Wednesday
10/4/2023 |
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Thursday
10/5/2023 |
open quantum systems, master equation, optical bloch equation continued | |||
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Friday
10/6/2023 |
HW 3 due | |||
| 8 |
Monday
10/9/2023 |
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Tuesday
10/10/2023 |
saturation/radiative broadening, 3 level atoms |
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Wednesday
10/11/2023 |
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Thursday
10/12/2023 |
doppler broadening, start laser cooling |
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Friday
10/13/2023 |
Paper approval due | |||
| 9 |
Monday
10/16/2023 |
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Tuesday
10/17/2023 |
MOTs and light shifts | |||
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Wednesday
10/18/2023 |
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Thursday
10/19/2023 |
sub-Doppler cooling |
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Friday
10/20/2023 |
HW 4 due | |||
| 10 |
Monday
10/23/2023 |
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Tuesday
10/24/2023 |
optical traps and evaporative cooling | |||
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Wednesday
10/25/2023 |
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Thursday
10/26/2023 |
Degenerate gases | |||
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Friday
10/27/2023 |
Talk abstract due | |||
| 11 |
Monday
10/30/2020 |
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Tuesday
10/31/2023 |
TBA | |||
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Wednesday
11/1/2023 |
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Thursday
11/2/2023 |
TBA | |||
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Friday
11/3/2023 |
HW 5 due | |||
| 12 |
Monday
11/6/2023 |
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Tuesday
11/7/2023 |
TBA | |||
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Wednesday
11/8/2023 |
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Thursday
11/9/2023 |
TBA | |||
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Friday
11/10/2023 |
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| 13 |
Monday
11/13/2023 |
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Tuesday
11/14/2023 |
TBA | |||
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Wednesday
11/15/2023 |
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Thursday
11/16/2023 |
TBA | |||
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Friday
11/17/2023 |
HW 6 due | |||
| 14 |
Monday
11/20/2023 |
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Tuesday
11/21/2023 |
NO CLASS | |||
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Wednesday
11/22/2023 |
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Thursday
11/23/2023 |
NO CLASS | |||
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Friday
11/24/2023 |
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| 15 |
Monday
11/27/2023 |
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Tuesday
11/28/2023 |
Presentations | |||
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Wednesday
11/29/2023 |
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Thursday
11/30/2023 |
Presentations | |||
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Friday
12/1/2023 |
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| 16 |
Monday
12/4/2023 |
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Tuesday
12/5/2023 |
Presentations | |||
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Wednesday
12/6/2023 |
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Thursday
12/7/2023 |
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| 17 | Final Information |