APPPHYS 376: Literature of Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics

Tue+Thu 2:15-3:30pm / 126 McCollough

 

Cavity quantum electrodynamics is a cornerstone of modern quantum optics, quantum information science, and non-equilibrium quantum statistical mechanics.  In this course we will first review basic concepts and theoretical formalism of cavity QED and then turn to a survey of key literature of the past three decades.  The preliminary syllabus comprises two weeks of introductory lectures and eight weeks of journal club-format for the discussion of papers.

Syllabus

 

Version of 1/3/09: link

Reference materials

 

Lecture notes will be posted below in PDF format.  Journal articles for in-class discussion will be referenced with DOI links; if you follow these links from a computer on the campus network (or with a browser set up for proxy access) you should be able to reach them straightforwardly.

Please inform the instructor if you have difficulty accessing any required course materials.

Class notes and assignments

Overview slides from Tue 6 January: PDF
Class notes from Tue 6 January: PDF

Class notes from Thu 8 January: PDF

Matlab example scripts: Example 2 / Example 3 / Example 4 / mbe.m

Reading assignment for Tue 13 January: Inversion of quantum jumps…
Class notes from Tue 13 January: PDF

Reading assignment for Thu 15 January: Retroactive quantum jumps…
Reading assignment for Thu 15 January: Atomic juggling using feedback

Week 3: Optical and microwave strong coupling
For Tue 20 Jan: Observation of the normal-mode splitting for an atom in an optical cavity
For Tue 20 Jan: Quantum Rabi oscillation: A direct test of field quantization in a cavity
For Thu 22 Jan: Observation of the vacuum Rabi spectrum for one trapped atom
For Thu 22 Jan: Seeing a single photon without destroying it

Week 4: Quantum information science and cavity QED
For Tue 27 Jan: Measurement of conditional phase shifts for quantum logic
For Tue 27 Jan: Decoherence, Continuous Observation, and Quantum Computing…
For Thu 29 Jan: Scalable photonic quantum computation through cavity-assisted interactions
For Thu 29 Jan: Quantum state transfer and entanglement distribution…

Week 5: Single-photon sources and non-classical photon statistics
For Tue 3 Feb: Photon blockade in an optical cavity with one trapped atom
For Tue 3 Feb: Single-photon generation with InAs quantum dots
For Thu 5 Feb: Experimental demonstration of a one-atom laser in the regime of strong coupling
For Thu 5 Feb: Arbitrary control of a quantum electromagnetic field

Week 6: Perturbative effects and micro/nano-photonics
For Tue 10 Feb: Cavity QED level shifts of simple atoms
For Tue 10 Feb: Atom galleries for whispering atoms…
For Thu 12 Feb: Observation of strong coupling between one atom and a monolithic microresonator
For Thu 12 Feb: Generation and transfer of single photons on a photonic crystal chip

Week 7: Optical bistability, semi-classical and quantum
**No class on Tue 17 Feb or Thu 19 Feb**
For Tue 24 Feb: Applications of all-optical switching and logic
For Tue 24 Feb: Optical bistability and photon statistics in cavity quantum electrodynamics
For Tue 24 Feb: Linear and nonlinear optical spectroscopy of a strongly coupled microdisk…
For Thu 26 Feb: Low-lying bifurcations in cavity quantum electrodynamics

Week 8: Circuit QED and the Josephson Bifurcation Amplifier
For Thu 26 Feb: Strong coupling of a single photon to a superconducting qubit using circuit…
For Thu 26 Feb: Climbing the Jaynes-Cummings Ladder and observing its sqrt(N) nonlinearity…
For Tue 3 Mar: Resolving photon-number states in a superconducting circuit
For Tue 3 Mar: RF-driven Josephson Bifurcation Amplifier for quantum measurement

Week 9: Student final presentations
For Thu 5 Mar: Cavity-QED based on collective magnetic dipole coupling: spin ensembles...  
For Thu 5 Mar: Quantum jumps between dressed states: A proposed cavity-QED test using feedback
**No class on Tue 10 Mar**
For Thu 12 Mar: A single-photon transistor using nanoscale surface plasmons
For Thu 12 Mar: Observation of cavity-mediated long-range light forces…