8.421 Atomic and Optical Physics I (Spring 2014, MIT OCW): Lecture 05

8.421 Atomic and Optical Physics I

8.421 Atomic and Optical Physics I (Spring 2014, MIT OCW). Instructor: Professor Wolfgang Ketterle. This is the first of a two-semester subject sequence that provides the foundations for contemporary research in selected areas of atomic and optical physics. Topics covered include the interaction of radiation with atoms: resonance; absorption, stimulated and spontaneous emission; methods of resonance, dressed atom formalism, masers and lasers, cavity quantum electrodynamics; structure of simple atoms, behavior in very strong fields; fundamental tests: time reversal, parity violations, Bell's inequalities; and experimental methods. (from ocw.mit.edu)

Lecture 05 - Resonance V and Atoms I

In this lecture, the professor reviewed Landau-Zener problem; discussed density matrix formalism for arbitrary two-level systems; and started the new chapter "Atoms".

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Lecture 01 - Resonance I

Lecture 02 - Resonance II

Lecture 03 - Resonance III

Lecture 04 - Resonance IV

Lecture 05 - Resonance V and Atoms I

Lecture 06 - Atoms II

Lecture 07 - Atoms III

Lecture 08 - Atoms IV

Lecture 09 - Atoms V and Atoms in External Fields I

Lecture 10 - Atoms in External Fields II

Lecture 11 - Atoms in External Fields III