Detailed Course Information
Prof. Immanuel Bloch, Dr. S. Fölling, Dr. U. Schneider
3h Lecture +1h Journal Club (+2h Problem sets)
When: Monday,Wednesday 10-12 c.t.
Where: Schellingstrasse 4 (H), 1st Floor, Room H107
The course gives an introduction into the field of ultracold quantum gases. The lectures are combined with a weekly journal club, where we discuss original publications related to the course. Additional problem sets supplement the course.
- Introduction
- Laser Cooling
- Elementary coherent atom light-interactions
- Collisional Interactions
- Evaporative Cooling
- Bose-Einstein Condensation
- Gross Pitaevskii Equation
- Elementary Solutions (Bogoliubov Spectrum, Sound Excitations...)
- Solitons
- Vortices
- Fermi Gases
- Sympathetic Cooling
- Elementary Solutions
- Feshbach Resonances
- BEC-BCS Crossover
- Optical Lattices
- Strongly Correlated Quantum Systems (SF-MI, Tonks, etc....)
- Quantum Information Processing with Ultracold Atoms
- Special Topics
- Gases under Rapid Rotation
- Artificial Gauge Fields
Prerequisites:
Basic knowledge in atomic physics and quantum mechanics. Knowledge in statistical physics is helpful but not required.
Grading:
The course is offered as a "Wahlpflichtvorlesung" within the Physics Masters program of LMU or the corresponding "Diplom" program. Grading will be done through oral examinations at the end of the course. An active participation in the tutorials and the Journal club is required to take the final examination!
In order to be admitted to the final exam, we in particular require that you "do" 75% of the problems. A problem is accepted as "done" if the solution presented is serious and reasonable, even if the correct result is not obtained. You can hand in solutions in pairs, but both partners need to be able to explain their work on the blackboard.