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MIT Atomic Physics
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Contents
Part I Course Notes (8.421)
This material is from MIT 8.421 Atomic Physics I and is only in DRAFT form at the present.
- 1. Resonances and Two-Level Atoms
- 2. Atoms
- 3. Fine Structure and Lamb Shift
- 4, Effects of the Nucleus on Atomic Structure
- 6. Atoms in Magnetic Fields
- 7. Resonance Line Shapes
- 8. Higher-Order Radiation Processes
- 9. Two-Photon Excitation
- 10. Coherence
Old MIT 8.421 Course Notes (pre-2008)
Part II Course Notes (8.422)
Prof. Dave Pritchard demonstrating classical squeezing with a parametrically driven pendulum oscillator see video
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Atomic Physics
- Chapter 2: Quantum light: states and dynamics
- Chapter 3: Optical Bloch equations
- Chapter 4: Photon-atom interactions
- Chapter 5: Light forces
- Chapter 6: Bose-Einstein condensates
- Chapter 7: Ion traps and quantum information
- Chapter 8: Frontiers in Atomic Physics
Sample Topics
- Interferometer shot noise limit
- Non-classical states of light
- Squeezed light interferometry
- Interferometer Heisenberg limit
Useful Resources
- MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms
- JILA Center for Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
- Caltech quantum optics wiki
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