Course Identification

Title:

Introduction to quantum optics

Code:

20181061

Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Lecturers:

Prof. Barak Dayan, Prof. Ilya Averbukh

TA's:

N/A

Course Schedule and Location

Year:

2018

Semester:

First Semester

When / Where:

Monday, 14:15 - 16:00, Drori Auditorium
Thursday, 16:15 - 17:00, Drori Auditorium

First Lecture:

30/10/2017

Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points

Physical Sciences: Lecture; 3.00 points
Chemical Sciences: 3.00 points

Comments

Starting December 21st the lectures will take place in Drori Auditorium

Prerequisites

Quantum mechanics of B.Sc. - a must
Quantum mechanics I of M.Sc. - preferable

Restrictions

Participants:

30

Language of Instruction

English

Attendance and participation

Expected and Recommended

Grade Type

Numerical (out of 100)

Grade Breakdown (in %)

Assignments:

60%

Final:

40%

Evaluation Type

Final assignment

Scheduled date 1

Date / due date

N/A

Location

N/A

Time

-

Remarks

N/A

Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

3

Syllabus

Field quantization
Lamb shift, Casimir force
Non-classical light; Fock states, coherent states, squeezed states
Distribution functions in quantum optics
Coherence and 2nd order correlation functions, Hanbury-Brown and Twiss
Quantum entanglement
Parametric down-conversion and entangled photons
Jaynes-Cummings model for the description of light-matter interactions
Cavity-QED

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to:

Use the fundamental concepts and analytic description of quantized light - from classical light (coherent states) to non classical light such as single photons, entangled photons and squeezed vacuum. Understand and be able to use the concepts of coherence, 2nd order coherence, and multi-photon interference.
Understand and be able to quantify entangled states of light and matter, and be familiar the most common non-classicality tests such as anti-bunching, Bell inequality, etc.
Demonstrate familiarity with the fundamental concepts and analytic description of light-matter interactions.

Reading List

Introductory Quantum Optics by Gerry and Knight (Cambridge)
The Quantum Theory of Light (Loudon)

Website

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