Sommer 2011

Ultracold Quantum gases (international max Planck research school)

(Prof. Dr. Walter Strunz)

This lecture deals with the theory of ultracold bosonic and fermionic quantum gases (supplemented by exercises)

Contents:

• Quantum statistics
• Bose-Einstein condensation and realisation
• properties of an ideal Bose-condensate
• interacting gas
• Mean-Field and excitations
• degenerated Fermi-gases
• quantum phase transition

Time/Place:

MO (4) BZW A120
DO (5) BZW A120

problem set 1   problem set 2    problem set 3    problem set 4   problem set 5

Please note: lecture takes place in English language!

Literature:

• C.J. Pethick and H. Smith Bose-Einstein Condensation in Dilute Gases Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-66580-9
• L. Pitaevskii and S. Stringari Bose-Einstein Condensation Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-850719-4

Einführung Theoretische Quantenoptik

(PD Dr. Günter Plunien)

Inhalte:

• Quantisierung des Maxwell-Feldes
• Feldzustände des Photonenfeldes
• Quantenkohärenz, Photodetektion und Photonkorrelationen
• Photon-Atomwechselwirkung
• Einfluss dynamischer externer Bedingungen und Vakuumzerfall

Zeit/Ort:

MO (5) SE2/201/H
DI (5) SE2/122/U

Vorkenntnisse:

Theoretische Quantenmechanik, Elektrodynamik

Relativistic Theory of atom (international max Planck research school)

(Dr. Andrey Volotka)

Contents:

• Quantization of Dirac and Maxwell fields (summary)
• Perturbation expansion of the Green functions
• Dirac equation in the Coulomb field
• Many-electron and QED effects
• Nuclear effects
• Atom in external fields
• Radiative transitions
• Computational methods

Zeit/Ort:

Mi (5) SE2/201/H

Basic knowledge in quantum field theory is necessary to take part in this lecture.

Please note: lecture takes place in English language!