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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
• 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

Useful Resources

• MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms
• JILA Center for Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
• Caltech quantum optics wiki