Lectures

 The following lecture plan may be subject to small changes. Note that if dates and times on this page disagree with the official schedule, then the official schedule is the correct one.
This page will be supplemented with lecture notes.


1: Introduction; Planck's theory
26/3, 13:15-15
Notes (pdf) Loudon:
1.1-1.5
Recommended exercises:
1.1
2: Einstein theory
26/3, 15:15-17
Notes (pdf) 1.6-1.7 Recommended exercises:
1.2-1.6
3: Semiclassical interaction
30/3, 13:15-15
Notes (pdf) 2.1-2.2
2.5 (first part)
Recommended exercises:
2.1, 2.4, 2.7
4: Line broadening; Optical Bloch equations
30/3, 15:15-17
Notes (pdf) 2.6 (first part)
2.7
2.9 (first part)
Recommended exercises:
2.2-2.3 , 2.5 , 2.8-2.9
5: Classical coherence theory
31/3, 8:15-10
Notes (pdf) 3.1,3.3
3.4 (first part)
3.5 (briefly)
3.7 (first part)
3.8 (briefly)
Recommended exercises:
3.1-3.9
6: Quantization of the EM-field
19/4, 8:15-10
Notes (pdf)
4.1-4.2
4.3 (briefly)
Recommended exercises:
4.1-4.3
Deadline for submission of Assignment 1
7: Quantized field, interaction with matter
20/4, 13:15-15
Notes (pdf) 4.4, 4.8 Recommended exercises:
4.9
Problem class
20/4, 15:15-17
8: Second quantization, the irradiance operator
26/4, 8:15-10
Notes (pdf) 4.9 (except last)
4.10
4.11 (briefly)
Recommended exercises:
4.7-4.8, 4.10-4.11
9: Single-mode quantized light
27/4, 15:15-17
Notes (pdf) 5.1
5.2 (except last part)
5.3
Recommended exercises:
5.1-5.4
10: Quantum interferometry, non-classical light,
multi-mode light

29/4, 13:15-15
Notes (pdf) 5.8
5.9 (except chaotic)
5.10 (very briefly)
6.2
Recommended exercises:
5.8-5.9
Problem class
29/4, 15:15-17
11: Multimode light, bunching and anti-bunching
3/5, 8:15-10
Notes (pdf) 6.3 (except last part)
6.4-6.5
Recommended exercises:
6.1-6.5
Deadline for submission of Assignment 2
12: The Casimir force, Heisenberg picture
4/5, 15:15-17
Notes (pdf) 6.12
4.7
13: Absorption and amplification of light by matter
6/5, 15:15-17
Notes (pdf) 7.1
7.2 (except last part)
7.3 (briefly)
Recommended exercises:
7.1-7.4
14: Laser fluctuations
10/5, 8:15-10
Notes (pdf) 7.4,7.7
7.8 (just results)
7.9 (just results)
Recommended exercises:
7.5-7.10
Problem class
11/5, 15:15-17
Deadline for submission of Assignment 3
15: Scattering, fluorescence
17/5, 8:15-10
Notes (pdf) 8.2
8.4 (except last part)
Recommended exercises in Loudon:
8.2, 8.3
16: Quantum jumps, cascade emission,
EPR, Bell's theorem

18/5, 15:15-17
Notes (pdf) 8.5 (very briefly)
8.6 (except last part)
Handouts
Recommended exercises in Loudon:
8.4,8.5,8.6
Deadline for submission of Assignment 4
17: Catch up
21/5, 13:15-15



18: QND measurements,
Quantum Zeno effect

24/5, 8:15-10
Notes (pdf) Literature:
Handouts
Recommended exercises:
Handouts
Problem class
25/5, 15:15-17
Problem class
26/5, 8:15-10
Problem class
26/5, 10:15-12
Deadline for submission of Assignment 5
26/5
Deadline for submission of Assignment 6
31/5


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