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.
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 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).
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 |