PHYS 686: Numerical Quantum Optics (Spring 2010): News

This document will be updated throughout the course. Check back here often for updates.

Wed May 19 21:58:01 PDT 2010
Fifth set of lecture notes (photodetection SMEs) posted on the Notes page.

Fri May 14 14:19:55 PDT 2010
Fourth set of lecture notes (discrete Fourier transforms) posted on the Notes page.

Thu Apr 29 22:39:26 PDT 2010
Third set of lecture notes (stochastic processes) posted on the Notes page.

Thu Apr 22 19:51:18 PDT 2010
Links to group pages posted on the Groups page (and linked from the main course page).

Tue Apr 20 15:48:12 PDT 2010
Second set of lecture notes (Wigner distribution) posted on the Notes page.

Mon Apr 19 17:50:38 PDT 2010
Project 2 writeup and associated sample codes posted on the Projects page.

Tue Apr 13 21:31:43 PDT 2010
I've posted a utility for making animations of the Wigner representation of a harmonic-oscillator state, which is useful for part 3 of Project 1. Go ahead and try it out, and I'll talk about Wigner functions in class tomorrow. (They're cool.) The code is posted on the Projects page.

Fri Apr 9 04:13:53 PDT 2010
Project 1 writeup posted on the Projects page, and first set of lecture notes (random walks, diffusion) posted on the Notes page.

Sat Mar 27 14:47:17 PDT 2010
Web site functional.