Coherent matter-light interaction, platforms of quantum technologies
Course description here
TD no. 1 TD no. 2 TD no. 3 TD no. 4 TD no. 5
Exam: 2016-2017
(but, as of the 2017-2018 edition, the exam type has changed to written report on a research article)
LaTex template for the report: here
Past reports: 2017-2018 edition 2018-2019 edition
SLIDES (this is an evolving link, with slides being added as the class progresses)
Program for 2019-2020 edition
27/02/2020: paper board scan -- videos part 1 part 2
12/03/2020: paper board scan -- videos part 1 part 2
19/03/2020: VIDEOS TO WATCH AT HOME
Ramsey interferometry: paper board scan (starting from page 9)
videos part1 (starting from 25' 30''; duration: 15' approx.)
Atomic clocks; Density matrix formalism, optical Bloch equations; Laser cooling (beginning)
paper board scan -- videos part1 (duration: 1h 2') part2 (duration: 36')
26/03/2020: VIDEOS TO WATCH AT HOME
Laser cooling (end): Doppler cooling and its limits; ion trapping (beginning)
paper board scan -- videos part1 part2
The video shown at the end of the lecture can be found here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkYXNeJ8IP0
02/04/2020: VIDEOS TO WATCH AT HOME
Ion trapping: sideband cooling; quantization of the EM field
paper board scan -- videos part1 part2
09/04/2020: VIDEOS TO WATCH AT HOME
Quantization of the EM field (end); spontaneous emission; cavity quantum electro-dynamics
paper board scan -- videos part1 part2
(in part 2: at 48' 25'' I am referring to slide no. 18 of the slide set
at 52' 15'' I am refererring to slide no. 19 of the slide set)
Deadline for handing in the WRITTEN REPORT (via e-mail, .pdf format): Sunday, May 3rd at 23h59
2019-2020 edition: Papers and teams
VIDEO OF THE LOTTERY here
(just in case you do not trust me ;-)
1) "Observation of Rabi oscillations between Bloch bands in an optical potential"
M. C. Fischer et al., Phys. Rev. A 58, R2648 (1998) TEAM: VILLAIN-THIBAULT
2) "Cavity Sideband Cooling of a Single Trapped Ion"
D. R. Leibrandt et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 103001 (2009) TEAM: BROCHIER-GUER
3) "Controlled Single-Photon Emission from a Single Trapped Two-Level Atom"
B. Darquié et al., Science 309, 454 (2005) TEAM: QUARD-BENATRE
4) "Single Ions Trapped in a One-Dimensional Optical Lattice"
M. Enderlein et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 233004 (2012) TEAM: PINARD-PICOT
5) "Suppression of Ion Transport due to Long-Lived Subwavelength Localization by an Optical Lattice"
L. Karpa et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 163002 (2013) TEAM: GUILLEMAUD-SPINOSA
6) "An optical lattice clock"
M. Takamoto et al., Nature 435, 321 (2005) TEAM: FEUVRIER-PANAIS
7) "Observation of the Vacuum Rabi Spectrum for One Trapped Atom"
A. Boca et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 233603 (2004) TEAM: OLLIVIER-BARROS
8) "Measurement of gravitational acceleration by dropping atoms"
A. Peters et al., Nature 400, 849 (1999) TEAM: GACHON-GAY
9) "Generating single microwave photons in a circuit"
A. A. Houck et al., Nature 449, 328 (2007) TEAM: SEGRETAIN-CAZALI
10) "A single-atom electron spin qubit in silicon"
J. J. Pla et al., Nature 489, 541 (2012) TEAM: PETITJEAN-LIGOUT DE OLIVEIRA
BONUS MATERIAL
1) J. Dalibard's lectures @ College de France (in French) (chaire: Atomes et Rayonnement)
2012-2013: Des cages de lumière pour les atomes : la physique des pièges et des réseaux optiques
https://www.college-de-france.fr/site/jean-dalibard/course-2012-2013.htm
2014-2015: Une brève histoire des atomes froids
https://www.college-de-france.fr/site/jean-dalibard/course-2014-2015.htm
2) W. Ketterle's MIT class on AMO physics: on youtube!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agu68RGaoWM (and following N videos...)
3) D. Wineland's talk on Keeping Better Time - The Era of Optical Atomic Clocks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxbkyuzXst4
4) D. Winelands' Nobel lecture: Superposition, entanglement, and raising Schrödinger's cat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtSrfuS7KDw
5) I. Deutsch's class on quantum optics (I & II) at UNM - Albuquerque
http://info.phys.unm.edu/~ideutsch/Classes/Phys566F15/index.htm
http://info.phys.unm.edu/~ideutsch/Classes/Phys581F16/index.htm
6) Videos on Paul traps:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=9TH5mFHLmfc