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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. You are welcome to edit to correct mistakes and even add content.

• 1. Resonances
• 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. Interaction of an atom with an electromagnetic field
• 8. Resonance Line Shapes
• 9. Two-Photon Excitation
• 10. Coherence

Old MIT 8.421 Course Notes (pre-2008) ; Bibliographic references (needs to be moved into individual chapters)

Part II Course Notes (8.422)

Prof. Dave Pritchard demonstrates classical squeezing with a parametrically driven pendulum oscillator (see video)

This material is from MIT 8.422 Atomic Physics II and is only in DRAFT form at the present. This material will be actively edited around when coresponding subjects are discussed in class.

• 1: Introduction to Atomic Physics
• 2: Quantum light: states and dynamics
• 3: Optical Bloch equations
• 4: Photon-atom interactions
• 5: Light forces
• 6. Techniques for cooling to ultralow temperatures
• 7: Quantum gases
• 8: Ion traps and quantum information

Useful Resources

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

• MIT Quantum Information Science wiki

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