2017-2018_edition

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

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Articles making the object of the written report (2017-2018 edition)

1) A. Gaëtan et al.

Observation of collective excitation of two individual atoms in the Rydberg blockade regime

Nature Phys. 5, 115 (2009)

(mind the Supplementary Information as well!)

Team: Pollet - Polly

2) S. Kuhr et al.

Coherence Properties and Quantum State Transportation in an Optical Conveyor Belt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 213002 (2003)

Team: Lagoin - Chan

3) T. Meunier et al.,

Rabi Oscillations Revival Induced by Time Reversal: A Test of Mesoscopic Quantum Coherence

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 010401 (2005)

Team: Gacoin - Densage

4) W. S. Bakr et al.

A quantum gas microscope for detecting single atoms in a Hubbard-regime optical lattice

Nature 462, 74 (2009)

Team: Ramborghi - Rouviere

5) J. Hu et al.

Creation of a Bose-condensed gas of 87Rb by laser cooling

Science 358, 1078 (2017)

(mind the Supplementary Information as well! To be found under "Figures & Data")

Team: Ricard - Lazrak

6) Q. Beaufils et al.,

Laser Controlled Tunneling in a Vertical Optical Lattice

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 213002 (2011)

Team: Pelosse - Ouzit

7) G. Santarelli et al.

Quantum Projection Noise in an Atomic Fountain: A High Stability Cesium Frequency Standard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 4619 (1999)

Team: Dzik - Marquet

8) C. Monroe et al.

A "Schrödinger Cat" Superposition State of an Atom

Science 272, 1131 (1996)

Team: Athias - Hoang

9) Q. A. Turchette et al.

Deterministic Entanglement of Two Trapped Ions

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3631 (1998)

Team: Normand - Bermond

10) D. Vion et al.

Rabi oscillations, Ramsey fringes and spin echoes in an electrical circuit

Fortschr. Phys. 51, 462 (2003)

Team: Fontaine - Remise-Charlot - Parrenin

11) P. J. Leek et al.

Observation of a Berry's Phase in a Solid-State Qubit

Science 318, 1889 (2007)

Team: Archambault - Klein

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2017-2018 EDITION: scans of the "paper whiteboard" + videos

22/03/2018: paper board scan -- videos part1 part2 part3

29/03/2018: paper board scan -- videos part1 part2

05/04/2018: paper board scan -- videos part1 part2

12/04/2018: paper board scan -- videos part1 part2

26/04/2018: paper board scan -- videos part1 part2 part3

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

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?v=bkYXNeJ8IP0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTJznUkAmIY