Lecture: Quantum Optics I – Lecture Content

Lecture Content

The course gives an introduction into the field of quantum optics and is targeted towards Masters students in Physics. The lectures are combined with a weekly journal club, where we discuss original publications related to the course. Additional problem sets supplement the course.

Course content

• Semiclassical Light-Atom-Interaction, Optical Bloch Equations
• Quantization of the Electromagnetic Field,
• (Fock States, Coherent States, Squeezed States)
• Quantized Light-Atom Interaction: Jaynes-Cummings-Model
• Dressed State Picture
• Quantum-Rabi Oscillations
• Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics, Nondestructive Detection of a Photon
• Wigner-Weisskopf-Theory of Spontaneous Emission
• Resonance Fluorescence, Mollow Triplett
• Classical Coherence Theory
• Correlations and Photon Statistics
• Spatial and Temporal Coherence
• Intensity Fluctuations, Hanbury Brown & Twiss Experiment
• Entanglement, EPR Experiments and Bell’s Inequalities
• Schrödinger Cat States
• Quantum Teleportation
• Laser Cooling of Atoms and Ions
• Quantum Cryptography
• Quantum Computing & Quantum Simulations with Ion Traps and Neutral Atoms

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge in atomic physics and quantum mechanics I.