PHYS7354 QUANTUM OPTICS

SPRING 2008

CLASS: 11:30AM–12:30PM MWF, Nicholson 435

Prof. Jonathan P. Dowling
Office Hours: 10:30AM–11:30AM 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:
100% Homework

 SYLLABUS
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
Miscellaneous Topics


HOMEWORK            ASSIGNED           DUE                                   SOLUTIONS                     HINTS

HW01                          MON 14 JAN         FRI 25 JAN                         HW01
HW02                           FRI 15 FEB            FRI 22 FEB
HW03                           FRI 14 MAR           FRI 28 MAR
HW04                           MON 07 APR         FRI 02 MAY                                                                                           HW04

LECTURES

7.1                 Quadrature Squeezing
7.2                 Generation of Squeezed States
7.3                 Detection of Squeezed States
7.4                 Amplitude or Number Squeezed States
7.5                 Antibunching
7.6                 Schrödinger's Cat
7.7                 Two Mode Squeezing

8.0                 Optical Bloch Equations and Theories of Dissipation and Decoherence
8.3                 Quantum Trajectory Theory and Master Equation
8.4                 Closed Three-Level System Analysis of Quantum Jumps
8.5                 Decoherence Kills Schrödinger's Cat

9.0                  Dirac, Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen, Bohm, and Bell
9.1                  Entangled Photon Sources and Nonlinear Optics
9.2                  Hong-Ou-Mandel Effect
9.5                  Dispersion Cancellation and Superluminal Tunneling
9.3                  Quantum Eraser I
9.4                  Induced Coherence / Quantum Eraser II
9.6                 Optical Tests of Quantum Mechanics / Bell's Inequalities

GUEST LECTURES & SPECIAL EVENTS
MON 21 JAN           Martin Luther King Holiday
WED 31 JAN           Special Guest Lecture: "Bose-Einstein Condensation in Optical Traps" (Dan Sheehy)
FRI   01  FEB           Special Guest Lecture: "Decoherence in Atom-Optical Systems" (Ravi Rau)
MON 04 FEB           Mardis Gras Holiday
WED 06 FEB           Mardis Gras Holiday
MON 11 FEB           Special Guest Lecture: "Quantum Level Shifts of Atoms in a Blackbody Heat Bath" (Robert O'Connell)
WED 05 MAR          Special Guest Lecture: "Ultrashort Laser Pulses in Ultrafast Atomic Phenomena I" (Ken Schafer)
FRI    07 MAR         Special Guest Lecture:  "Ultrashort Laser Pulses in Ultrafast Atomic Phenomena II" (Mette Gaarde)
WED 12 MAR         Quantum Seminar:  Petr Anisimov (TAMU) "Coherent Manipulation of the Refractive Index"
THU 13  MAR        Physics Colloquium: Olga Kocharovskya (TAMU) "Atomic and Nuclear Coherence Effects in Solids" 
FRI 14 MAR            Quantum Seminar: Olga Kocharovskya (TAMU) "Coherent Control of the Nuclear Transitions"
MON 17 MAR         Spring Break
WED 19 MAR         Spring Break
FRI    21 MAR         Spring Break
WED 02 APR        Quantum Seminar:  Jeffery Shapiro (MIT) "Quantum Sensors"
THU 03 APR          Physics Collquium: Jeffery Shapiro (MIT) "Imaging with Phase-Sensitive Light"
WED 30 APR         Special Guest Lecture: Jorge Pullin (LSU) "Quantum Gravity Induced Decoherence in Quantum Optics"
THU 01 MAY         Physics Collquium: Peter Milonni (LANL)
FRI 02 MAY           Quantum Seminar: Peter Milonni (LANL) "Casimir Effects"
FRI 02 MAY           Pizza Party 6:00PM Rotollo's