{"id":4129,"date":"2009-10-02T11:23:48","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T11:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/10\/02\/swashbuckling-through-quantum\/"},"modified":"2009-10-02T11:23:48","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T11:23:48","slug":"swashbuckling-through-quantum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/10\/02\/swashbuckling-through-quantum\/","title":{"rendered":"Swashbuckling Through Quantum Optics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m teaching my Quantum Optics class again this term, out of a completely different textbook than last time around&#8211; I&#8217;m using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oup.com\/us\/catalog\/general\/subject\/Physics\/AtomicMolecularOpticalphysics\/~~\/dmlldz11c2EmY2k9OTc4MDE5ODU2NjczMQ==\">Mark Fox&#8217;s <cite>Quantum Optics<\/cite><\/a> from the Oxford Master Series in AMO Physics, which is more of a regular textbook. I&#8217;ve got six students&#8211; four junior and senior physics majors, one senior chemistry major, and a retired scientist from GE who is interested in catching up on the latest new stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Last time around, I posted my lecture notes as I went through the class, but I&#8217;ve forgotten to do that thus far this term, here in the Freezing Hell of Lab Grading. So here&#8217;s a big links dump of lecture notes from classes 5-11 (classes 1-4 are a whirlwind review of classical E&amp;M and basic quantum:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-2fdef34792dbb05d52a10e281369640d-Lecture 5-6.pdf\">Lecture 5-6.pdf<\/a> Einstein rate coeffieicents, Fermi Golden Rule<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-7c8116267bf89ae161723d3a661ffda0-Lecture 7.pdf\">Lecture 7.pdf<\/a>Proving the existence of photons via photon counting statistics<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-34f5022caa597b3856adc9d9becb4f19-Lecture 8.pdf\">Lecture 8.pdf<\/a> Experimental measurement of photon counting statistics and shot noise in photodiodes<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-9dddd29671525b1d8db08dfc84a4f5de-Lecture 9.pdf\">Lecture 9.pdf<\/a>Photon bunching and anti-bunching, Hanbury Brown and Twiss<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-27c2e3a2d8c8da0b554b508b500783c0-Lecture 10.pdf\">Lecture 10.pdf<\/a> Single photon interference, describing light as a harmonic oscillator<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-af5713e179dddc36a873905bc71e26d0-Lecture 11.pdf\">Lecture 11.pdf<\/a> Phasor and field quadrature description of light, quantization of light, vacuum fields<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are kind of sketchy&#8211; I&#8217;m ad-libbing a bit more than usual&#8211; but they get you the basic idea of the material. I&#8217;m enjoying the class thus far, though the 9:15 am meeting time makes mornings a little hectic, what with Emmy and SteelyKid needing to be taken care of.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been wondering what I do in my day job, here&#8217;s a glimpse&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m teaching my Quantum Optics class again this term, out of a completely different textbook than last time around&#8211; I&#8217;m using Mark Fox&#8217;s Quantum Optics from the Oxford Master Series in AMO Physics, which is more of a regular textbook. I&#8217;ve got six students&#8211; four junior and senior physics majors, one senior chemistry major, and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/10\/02\/swashbuckling-through-quantum\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Swashbuckling Through Quantum Optics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,13,7,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-course_reports","category-education","category-physics","category-quantum_optics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}