Essential Quantum Mechanics for Quantum Technologies
Every Saturday 1930 IST by Tripathi Om Sarveshwarpati
General structure of the course
Unit 1: TLA 1.0 - General • Demonstration of Population Dynamics with Dyna
Software (written by Tripathi Om) • General 2 x 2 Hamiltonian, Eigenvalues, Eigenvectors
• Bloch Sphere Representation of states Unit 7: Cavity QED
• Classical and Quantum Landevin Equations Unit 2: Light 1.0 - General • Cavity Master equation • EM Field Quantization
• Quantum Linear Harmonic Oscillator (QLHO) • Jaynes Cummings Model
• Quadrature and Optical Phase Space, Coherent and
Squeezed states Unit 8: Light 2.0 - Lasers • Quantum Theory of laser, Linblad Equation Model, Unit 3: TLA 2.0 - Atom + Light Photon Statstics • Rotating Wave Approximation, Rabi Oscillations • Laser Spectroscopy(few types) with CW Lasers • Introduction to Density Matrices- Density Matrix Pic- • Lasers Based on Mode Amplification and Feedback: ture of Atom-Light Interaction External Cavity Diode Lasers (ECDL) and Injection • Dressed States Locked Lasers
• Dark States, Electromagnetically Induced Trans- • Locking: Pound-Drever-Hall (PDH) and Saturated Ab- parency (EIT) and Raman Population Transfer sorption Spectroscopy (SAS)
Unit 4: Linewidths Unit 9: Laser Cooling
• Wigner-Weisskopf Theory: Spontaneous Decay and • Doppler and sub-Doppler cooling: Theory and Experi- Broadening mental Techniques • Other Broadening Mechanisms • Much more
Unit 6: Master Equation
Unit 10: Future Topics • Derivation of Bloch Equation for Two and Three Level Systems • Cavities, Ions, and Formation of Cold Molecules etc.