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Quantum Mechanics
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Learn how light works at the most fundamental level: photon by photon, interacting with one atom at a time!
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Semiclassical Light-Atom Interaction
Quantization of the Electromagnetic Field
Beam Splitters and Interferometers
Quantized Light-Atom Interaction
Elements of Cavity QED
- Introduction, Overview of classical, semiclassical and q.m. models
- Interaction Hamiltonian of charged particle with e.m. field
- Time Dependent Perturbation Theory
- Transition Rates
- Fermi-Golden Rule
- Two-level atom
- Oscillationg dipoles
- Bloch sphere
- Density Operator - Density Matrix
- Optical Bloch Equations
- Rabi Frequency, Saturation Parameter, Spontaneous Decay
- Lineshape in Fluorescence - Saturation Broadening
- Lambert-Beer Law
- Bloch Vector
- Ramsey Method
- Mach Zehnder Interferometer
Quantization of the Electromagnetic Field
- Quantized Modes
- Recap: Quantum Mechanics of Harmonic Oscillator
- Ladder Operators, Number Operator
- Quadrature Operators
- Quantization of the EM Field
- Hamiltonian of Radiation Field
- Energy of Vacuum State
- Fock States
- Coherent States
- Squeezed States, Thermal States
- Planck's Black Body Radiation Formula
Beam Splitters and Interferometers
- Beam Splitter
- Classical description of beam splitter
- QM description of beam splitter
- Quantized Mach Zehnder Interferometer
- Homodyne / Heterodyne Detection
Quantized Light-Atom Interaction
- Interaction Hamiltonian
- Jaynes Cummings Hamiltonian
- Quantum Rabi Oscillations
- Vacuum Rabi Oscillations, Collapse & Revivals
Elements of Cavity QED
- Optical Cavities
- Microwave Cavities and Rydberg Atoms
- Seeing a Photon Without Destroying it
- Rabi Oscillations in Dressed State Picture
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- - Faculty of Physics
- Immanuel Bloch - Faculty of Physics
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