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                         Atomic Physics &
                                      Ultracold Quantum Gases 
                                      
                         
                          
                         
                         
                                PHY 566/QEII* 
                                        Fall 2018 
                               
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                            SELF-CONTAINED COURSE -
                            NOT PART 2 OF PHY565/QEI
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                                   Lecture: 
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                                5:30-6:50 
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                                 S265 or  S141 
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                          Review
                                  of atomic structure in
                                    external fields; atom-light
                                  interactions; ultracold collisions; cooling
                                  and trapping; Bose-Einstein
                                  condensates and their mean-field
                                  physics; low-dimensional Bose gases;
                                  degenerate Fermi gases; pairing,
                                  superfluidity and BEC-BCS crossover;
                                  vortices; optical lattices; artificial
                                  gauge fields.  
                                    Connections to condensed-matter,
                                    nuclear, and particle physics,
                                    quantum information science, and
                                    metrology. 
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                             textbooks 
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                          None
                                  required - detailed lecture notes
                                    with chapter
                                references to reviews
                                  and textbooks will
                                be provided as the course proceeds.  
                                  Recommended: C.J. Pethick
                                    & H. Smith: Bose-Einstein-Condensation in
                                      Dilute Gases.
                                   
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                           ~biweekly
                                homework (50%), midterm (15%)
                                & final (15%); term
                                paper (20%) 
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                          Students
                                  who completed this course will
                                  have a thorough understanding of basic
                                  phenomena in ultracold AMO physics,
                                  will be able to describe these
                                  phenomena based on quantum mechanics,
                                  and will be able to make quantitative
                                  estimates for them. 
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http://ultracold.physics.sunysb.edu/Courses/PHY566-18.Fall 
                       
                      
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