Light & Matter - Laser & Matière (part 2)

Coherent matter-light interaction, platforms of quantum technologies

Course description here

TD no. 1 TD no. 2 TD no. 3 TD no. 4 TD no. 5

Exam: 2016-2017

(but, as of the 2017-2018 edition, the exam type has changed to written report on a research article)

LaTex template for the report: here

Past reports: 2017-2018 edition

SLIDES (this is an evolving link, with slides being added as the class progresses)

Program for 2018-2019 edition

14/03/2019: paper board scan -- videos part1 part2

21/03/2019: paper board scan -- videos part1 part2

28/03/2019: paper board scan -- videos part1 part2

04/04/2019: paper board scan -- videos part1 part2

11/04/2019: paper board scan -- videos part1 part2

25/04/2019: paper board scan -- videos part1 part2

Voluntary Orals: THURSDAY 02/05, 9h00-13h00

Deadline for handing in the WRITTEN REPORT (via e-mail, .pdf format): SUNDAY 05/05, 23h59

2018-2019 edition: Papers and teams

1) "Synthetic magnetic fields for ultracold neutral atoms"

Y-J.Lin et al., Nature 462, 628 (2009) TEAM: BERGMANN / MONNET

2) "Generation of nonclassical motional states of a trapped atom"

D. M. Meekhof et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1796 (1996) TEAM: GUISLAIN / WANG

3) "Rabi oscillations revival induced by time reversal: a test of mesoscopic quantum coherence"

T. Meunier et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 010401 (2005) TEAM: LE GRAND / PAGAUD

4) "From Lamb shift to light shift: vacuum and subphoton cavity fields measured by atomic phase sensitive detection"

M. Brune et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 3339 (1994) TEAM: DELANCE / FAURE

5) "Atomic interferometry using stimulated Raman transitions"

M. Kasevich and S. Chu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 181 (1991) TEAM: MORLET-DECARNIN / MUSSILLON

6) "Cooling to the ground state of axial motion for one atom strongly coupled to an optical cavity"

A. D. Boozer et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 083602 (2006) TEAM: JEZEQUEL / CHANU-RIGALDIES

7) "Observation of coherent oscillations in a single electron spin"

F. Jelezko et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 076401 (2004) TEAM: COMBE / MARTOS

8) "The atom-cavity microscope: single atoms bound in orbit by single photons"

C. J. Hood et al., Science 287, 1447 (2000) TEAM (3): DUMAS / PERETTI / ALLEMAND

9) "Observation of quantum osciilations between a Josephson phase qubit and a microscopic resonator using fast readout"

K. B. Cooper et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 180401 (2004) TEAM: COFFY / BLUM MOYSE

10) "Observation of superradiant and subradiant spontaneous emission of two trapped ions"

R. G. DeVoe and R. G. Brewer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 2049 (1996) TEAM: CAETANO / TRIFA

11) "Deterministic generation of single photons from on atom trapped in a cavity"

J. McKeever et al., Science 303, 1992 (2004) TEAM: THERY / CHAIGNE

12) "Light speed reduction to 17 meters per second in an ultracold atomic gas"

L. Vestergaard Hau et al., Nature 397, 594 (1999) TEAM: COLLEAUX / LE COEUR

13) "Generation of Fock states in a superconducting quantum circuit"

M. Hofheinz et al., Nature 454, 310 (2008) TEAM: BABIN / DUPREZ

14) "Observation of coherent many-body Rabi oscillations"

Y. O. Dudin et al., Nature Phys. 8, 790 (2012) TEAM: BLANCON / GOERLINGER