PHYS 685: Quantum Optics II (Winter 2008)


Instructor: Daniel A. Steck
Office: 277 Willamette      Phone: 346-5313      email: dsteck@uoregon.edu
Office hours: MW 1:00-2:00, and by appointment (best to email first)
Course home page: http://atomoptics.uoregon.edu/~dsteck/teaching/08winter/phys685

Schedule: MWF 12:00-1:00, 318 Willamette
Course reference number: 24292
Credits: 4
Prerequisites: PHYS 684

Links: news, course notes, homework sets and keys, software resources.


Course overview

This course is a continuation from last term. This course will provide a broad overview of quantum-mechanical interactions between light and matter. We will focus mainly on light-atom interactions and thus we will also do some atomic structure. This term we will focus on the quantized electromagnetic field and quantum measurement, with increasing emphasis on computational methods.

Text:

I will provide typeset lecture notes for the course. They are available in composite form at this link, but I will also post separate versions for each lecture.


Grades

Grades for the course will be based on homework and an in-class final exam. The relative weights will be as follows:

Homework: short problem sets will be assigned approximately weekly during the term.

Final exam: the final exam is an in-class exam, to be held at the reguarly scheduled time of Tuesday, 18 March, 2008, at 10:15 am.

Pass/fail grading option: a passing grade requires the equivalent of a C- grade on all the course work (homework and final).


Syllabus

This is a tentative schedule of topics to cover in this course.

Monday Wednesday Friday
7 January
Field Quantization: Single Mode
9 January
Field Quantization: Multimode
11 January
Field Quantization: Transverse Delta Function
14 January
Field Quantization: Field Commutators
16 January
Minimal Coupling Interaction
18 January
Power-Zienau Transformation
21 January
No Class: MLK Day
23 January
p.A vs. r.E interactions
25 January
Aharonov-Bohm Effect
28 January
Jaynes-Cummings Model
30 January
Jaynes-Cummings Model
1 February
Spontaneous Emission
4 February
Spontaneous Emission: Master Equation
6 February
Nonexponential Decay
8 February
Coupled-Mode Theory
11 February
Cavity Decay and Driving
13 February
Linear Response Theory: Dispersive Media
15 February
Linear Response Theory: Green Tensor
18 February
Linear Response Theory: Kramers-Kronig Relations
20 February
Linear Response Theory: Generalized Susceptibility
22 February
Linear Response Theory: Casimir-Polder Force
25 February
Linear Response Theory: Casimir-Polder Force
27 February
Linear Response Theory: Casimir-Polder Force
29 February
Linear Response Theory: Casimir-Polder Force
3 March
Linear Response Theory: Lifetime Shifts
5 March
Linear Response Theory: Lifetime Shifts<
7 March
Stochastic Calculus: Wiener Process
10 March
Stochastic Calculus: Ito Calculus
12 March
Stochastic Calculus: Ito Calculus
14 March
Review and Evaluation