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Revision as of 04:17, 6 February 2024
Welcome to the MIT Atomic Physics Wiki. This is a collection of reference material that you can edit. Please contribute new content, as well as comments on and improvements to existing material. Our goal is to develop a helpful resource for all students in the field of modern atomic physics.
Contents
Part I Course Notes (8.421)
- 1. Resonances and Two-Level Atoms
- 2. Atoms
- 3. Fine Structure and Lamb Shift
- 4. Effects of the Nucleus on Atomic Structure
- 5. Atoms in Magnetic Fields
- 6. Atoms in electric fields
- 7. Light-atom interactions
- 7a. Higher-Order Radiation Processes
- 8. Resonance Line Shapes
- 9. Two-Photon Excitation
- 10. Coherence
Old MIT 8.421 Course Notes (pre-2008)
This material is from MIT 8.421 Atomic Physics I
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
