Atomic Physics &
Ultracold Quantum Gases
PHY 566/QEII*
Fall 2018
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* NOTE:
SELF-CONTAINED COURSE -
NOT PART 2 OF PHY565/QEI
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Meeting time and place |
Instructor |
Lecture:
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5:30-6:50
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TuTh
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S265 or S141
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topics |
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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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grading |
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~biweekly
homework (50%), midterm (15%)
& final (15%); term
paper (20%)
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learning outcomes |
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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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