Detailed Course Information
Prof. Immanuel Bloch & Coworkers
3h Lecture +1h Journal Club (+2h Problem sets)
When: Monday,Wednesday 10-12 c.t.
Where: Schellingstrasse 4, 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.