PHYS7353 QUANTUM OPTICS
FALL 2007
CLASS: 10:30AM–11:30AM MWF, Nicholson 435
Prof. Jonathan P. Dowling
Office Hours: 11:30AM–12:30PM MWF
Required Book:
Introductory Quantum Optics
by
Christopher Gerry & Peter Knight
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 9780521527354 | ISBN-10: 052152735X
Recommended Book:
Quantum Optics
by
Marlan O. Scully and M. Suhail Zubairy
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 9780521435956 |
ISBN-10: 0521435951
NRL Plasma Formulary
Mathematics
of Quantum Mechanics: Review
Quantum & Atom Optics Links
Quantum
Optics Bibliography
COURSE GRADE:
50% Homework
50% In Class Presentation of
Scientific Paper
SYLLABUS
Introduction
Field quantization
Coherent states
Emission and absorption of radiation
by atoms
Quantum coherence functions
Beam splitters and interferometers
Nonclassical light
Dissipative interactions and
decoherence
Optical test of quantum mechanics
Experiments in cavity QED and with
trapped ions
Applications of entanglement:
Heisenberg-limited interferometry and
quantum information processing
HOMEWORK
ASSIGNED
DUE
SOLUTIONS
HINTS
HW01
WED 05 SEP
WED 12
SEP
HW02
WED 12 SEP
FRI 21 SEP
Chapter
2
HW03
FRI 28 SEP
MON 08 OCT
HW03 Solutions
HW04
FRI 19 OCT
FRI 26 OCT
HW04
Solutions
3.11,
3.14
HW05
MON 05 NOV
MON 12 NOV
HW06
MON 19 NOV
FRI 07 DEC
Chapters
4,5,&6
LECTURES
1.1–2.4
Introduction / E&M Field Quantization (The Photon: Lewis26)
2.5
Thermal Fields
2.6a
Notes on Geometric Series & Vacuum Fluctuations: The Lamb
Shift
2.6b
Vacuum Flucuations: The Casimir
Effect (Mathematics,
Milonni92, Dowling89, Casimir48)
2.7
The Quantum Phase
3.1
Coherent States as Minimum
Uncertainty States (MUS) of the Simple Harmonic Oscillator (SHO)
3.2
Displacement Operator for
Coherent States
3.3
Time Evolution of Coherent States
3.4
Classical Currents
Generate Quantum Coherent Photon States
3.5
More Fun With Coherent
States
3.6
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about
Interference in Phase Space (Schleich01,
Dowling91)
3.7
Phase-Space Probability Distributions
3.8
Characteristic Functions
for PSPDs (Plots of Various Q and W Functions [PDF, PPT].)
4.1
Atom Field Interactions
4.2
Semiclassical: Quantum
Atom &
Weak Classical Field (Fermi's Golden Rule)
4.3
Quantum Atom &
Weak Quantized Field (Einstein Rate Equations)
4.4
Semiclassical: Quantum
Atom &
Strong Classical Field (Rabi Oscillations)
4.5
Quantum Atom & Strong
Quantized Field (Jaynes-Cummings Model)
4.6
Dressed Atom-Field States
5.1
Classical Optical
Coherence Theory
5.2
Quantum Optical Coherence
Theory
5.4
Higher-Order Coherence
Functions
6.2
Quantum Beam
Splitter Theory
6.3
Quantum Mach-Zehnder
Interferometer Theory
6.4
Interaction-Free
Measurement
6.5
Coherent-State
Interferometry and the Shot-Noise Limit
6.6
Fabry-Perot
Interferometer (Wikipedia,
Loudon04, Ley87)
7.1
Quadrature Squeezing
GUEST
LECTURES & SPECIAL EVENTS
MON 01 OCT Gabriela Gonzalez
(LSU) "Quantum Noise in LIGO Lasers" [PDF, PPT]
WED 10 OCT No Class
FRI 12 OCT
Fall Holiday
WED 21 NOV No Class
FRI 23 NOV
Thanksgiving Holiday
FRI 07
DEC
Pizza Party at Rotollos (6PM)
MON 10 DEC
Begin Final
Exam Presentations
FRI 14 DEC
End Final Exam Presentations