Atomic and Optical Physics II

Syllabus

1. Week 1

   Laser cooling — Doppler and sub-Doppler

2. Week 2

   Magneto-optical traps

3. Week 3

   Evaporative cooling; quantum degeneracy

4. Week 4

   Bose-Einstein condensation — theory

5. Week 5

   BEC experiments; observation and properties

6. Week 6

   Atom optics; matter-wave interferometry

7. Week 7

   Ultracold collisions; scattering length

8. Week 8

   Feshbach resonances

9. Week 9

   Optical lattices; Hubbard models

10. Week 10

    Quantum simulation with cold atoms

11. Week 11

    Quantum information with neutral atoms

12. Week 12

    Frontiers — ultracold molecules, dipolar gases