Light & Matter - Laser & Matière (part 2)

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkYXNeJ8IP0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTJznUkAmIY