Atomic Physics & Ultracold Quantum Gases

PHY 566/QEII*

Fall 2018



* NOTE: SELF-CONTAINED COURSE - NOT PART 2 OF PHY565/QEI

Meeting time and place Instructor

Lecture:

5:30-6:50
TuTh
S265 or  S141
 

Prof. Dominik Schneble

A-106 Office hours: tba
     
topics   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.

textbooks

  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.
grading
 ~biweekly homework (50%), midterm (15%) & final (15%); term paper (20%)



learning outcomes
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.

http://ultracold.physics.sunysb.edu/Courses/PHY566-18.Fall


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