| Date | Lectures | Assignments | Notes | ||||
| 04/01 | Review of hydrogenic atoms.(notes) | ||||||
| 04/03 | Interaction of an atom with EM wave.(notes) | HW 1 (solutions) | |||||
| 04/05 | Absorption and emission. (notes) | <WS 1 | |||||
| 04/08 | Stimulated and spontaneous emission (ctd). | WS 2 | |||||
| 04/10 | Spontaneous emission. (notes) | WS 3 | |||||
| 04/12 | The electric dipole approximation. | HW 2(solutions) | For Problem 1 of HW 2 | ||||
| 04/15 | Selection rules.(notes) | WS 4 | |||||
| 04/17 | Line shapes and widths. (notes) | WS 5 | |||||
| 04/19 | Fine structure of hydrogenic atoms.(notes) | WS 6 | |||||
| 04/22 | Fine structure splitting. Lamb shift.(notes) | HW 3(solutions) | Lamb & Retherford experiment | ||||
| 04/24 | Hyperfine splitting. (notes) | WS 7 | Modern spectroscopy-1 | Modern spectroscopy-2 | Proton structure | ||
| 04/26 | One-electron atom in static electric and magnetic fields.(notes) | WS 8 | Hydrogen & Deuterium: hyperfine | Modern research on hyperfine interactions | 1st observation of 21-cm line | 2nd observation of 21-cm line | |
| 04/29 | One-electron atom in static magnetic field: Zeeman effect.(notes) | WS 9 | |||||
| 05/01 | Two-electron atoms.(notes) | WS 10 | 1st observation of doubly-excited states of He | ||||
| 05/03 | Helium atom.(notes) | HW 4(solutions) | WS 11 | ||||
| 05/06 | Many-electron atoms. The central field approximation.(notes) | WS 12 | 05/08 | The periodic table.(notes) | WS 13 | ||
| 05/10 | L-S and j-j coupling.(notes) | WS 14 | |||||
| 05/13 | Interaction of many-electron atom with EM field.(notes) | WS 15 | |||||
| 05/15 | Midterm (2 pm, Weniger 304) | ||||||
| 05/17 | Molecular structure. (notes) | HW 5(solutions) | WS 16 | ||||
| 05/20 | Molecular structure:symmetries. (notes) | ||||||
| 05/22 | Molecular rotations and vibrations. Molecular spectroscopy. (notes) | HW 6(solutions) | WS 17 | Ground state of hydrogen molecule | |||
| 05/24 | Intro to laser physics.Two- vs four-level system.(notes) | ||||||
| 05/27 | Memorial Day. | ||||||
| 05/29 | Cavity modes. Presentations (schedule) | HW 7(solutions) | Presentation rubric | ||||
| 05/31 | Presentations (see schedule above) | ||||||
| 06/03 | Typical lasers.Pulsed lasers.(notes) | ||||||
| 06/05 | Intro to quantum cryptography.(notes) | ||||||
| 06/07 | Intro to quantum entanglement and teleportation. | ||||||