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
BONUS MATERIAL
W. Ketterle's MIT class on AMO physics: on youtube!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agu68RGaoWM (and following N videos...)
I. Deutsch's class on quantum optics (I & II) at UNM - Albuquerque
http://info.phys.unm.edu/~ideutsch/Classes/Phys566F15/index.htm
http://info.phys.unm.edu/~ideutsch/Classes/Phys581F16/index.htm
Videos on Paul traps:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=9TH5mFHLmfc