Welcome to the Advanced Optical Science lecture and exercise.
The course is organized in four parts.
Part I
The first part is dedicated to the topic
of closing loopholes in Bell-experiments, which is crucially relevant
for the interpretation of quantum mechanics. It includes an introduction
to the concepts of the EPR-paradox, local-realism and
Bell-Inequalities, and gives a brief overview over the key experiments
and experimental methods to violate a Bell-Inequality while closing all
possible loopholes.
Part II
The
second part of the course introduces single optical and
atomic quantum systems. In particular atom-like defects in solid-state
materials and their coupling to quantized electromagnetic fields will be
introduced. This includes (i) Single Photons & Single Emitters,
(ii) Cavity QED in the Weak Coupling Regime, (iii) Diamond Defect
Centers as Optical Quantum Probes, (iv) Diamond Defect Centers as
Magnetic Quantum Probe, and (v) Quantum Information Processing in
Diamond. Focus will be on recent developments and state-of-the-art
experiments
Part III
The third part of the course introduces two-dimensional materials as an
emerging new platform to study light-matter interaction and
corresponding quantum effects. This includes (i) 2D materials as Tunable
Single Photon Sources, (ii) Excitonic Bose Einstein condensation, and
(iii) 2D Materials as programmable quantum emitters. Focus will be on
recent developments.
Part IV
Ultra-cold atom research led to
several Nobel prizes in physics, amongst others, honoring the creation
of the Bose-Einstein condensate – A phenomenon described by coherently
oscillating atoms which expand with temperatures that correspond to
billionths of a degree above absolute zero only. In this part of the
lecture, we will study the basics of cold atom technology and discuss
why this is an important step forward in our ability to study and
control the fundamental building blocks of nature, as well as for
driving innovations in metrology, timing and field sensing applications.
- Kursverantwortliche/r: Sebastian Heeg
- Kursverantwortliche/r: Markus Christopher Krutzik
- Kursverantwortliche/r: Sven Ramelow
- Kursverantwortliche/r: Dr. Tim Schröder