The students will learn about selected fundamental experiments and theoretical concepts of modern quantum optics and they will be provided with the necessary technical skills to start a master’s thesis. Within tutorials, the students will learns to recognize physics problems, to relate them to the course topics, to phrase them mathematically and finally to find a solution. The discussion of the aforementioned steps with other students as well as with teachers will deepen the understanding and develop communications skills for scientific discussions.

Topics:

  • Quantization of the electromagnetic field
  • Coherent states, squeezed states Correlation functions
  • Interferometer
  • Semi-classical / quantized light-matter-interaction, dressed states Decoherence
  • Cavity-quantum-electrodynamics
  • Trapped atoms, ions, molecules
  • Laser cooling
  • Bose-Einstein-Condensation
  • Entanglement
  • Fundamentals of quantum information processing Fundamentals of quantum metrology and sensing