Teaching

Lecture at the Master level in Physics.

All the lectures have been recorded in video, and are available here (access restricted to EPFL students - contact JPB for external access). Informations available on the moodle webpage (enrolled students only). 

Content:

• Review of two-level systems and harmonic oscillators

• Bipartite systems, entanglement, density matrices

• Generalized quantum measurements, POVM

• Evolution of density matrices, Kraus theorem, quantum channels

• Lindblad equations

• Optical Bloch equations

• Damped harmonic oscillators

• Stochastic Schrödinger equation

• Spin and atomic ensembles, Dicke  and coherent spin states

• Mechanical effects of light, laser cooling

• Chosen topics among: Rydberg quantum logic, trapped ions quantum logic, quantum simulation (analogue and digital)

Lecture at the Bachelor level in Physics, taught together with Prof. Oleg Yazyev 

Content:

• Review of the Hydrogen atoms, atomic orbitals, angular momentum

• Fine and hyperfine structure of the hydrogen atom

• Hydrogen atom in external fields, Zeeman and Stark effect, selection rules, polarizability

• the Helium atom, exchange and correlations

• Many-electron atoms, periodic table

• Born-Oppenheimer approximation, H_2+ molecule

• Heitler-London theory of covalent bounds

• van-derWaals, ionic bounds

• Dipolar interaction between atoms and light

• Light propagation, geometric optics, optical resonators

• Absorption, emission of light, Einstein coefficients

• Elementary theory of the laser