Quantum Metrology with Ultracold Matter 0800-M-METROLOKW

During the lecture, the student will become familiar with:

experimental techniques for cooling and trapping atoms,
methods of spectroscopy of ultra-narrow atomic transitions,
the use of cold atoms for precise frequency measurement,
Bose-Einstein condensate and experiments on ultracold molecules.
The lecture focuses on practical aspects applied in atomic, molecular, and optical physics laboratories. Basic theoretical issues from quantum mechanics necessary to understand the discussed techniques will be reviewed.

The lecture plan includes:

1. Interaction of atoms with light: absorption and emission of photons by atoms, perturbation of atoms by electromagnetic fields, interaction of atoms with magnetic fields.
2. Cooling and trapping of atoms: magneto-optical traps, dipole traps, and optical lattices.
3. Laser stabilization techniques.
4. High-resolution spectroscopic techniques.
5. Ultrastable optical cavities.
6. Methods of optical signal transfer, frequency noise suppression in optical fibers, optical frequency combs.
7. Frequency standards and optical atomic clocks.
8. Bose-Einstein condensate.
9. Ultracold molecules.
10. Applications of ultracold atoms in fundamental physics beyond the Standard Model.

Laboratory Classes
1. Laboratory with cold strontium atoms and an optical atomic clock.
2. Laboratory with ultrastable lasers and optical cavities.
3. Laboratory with ultracold HgRb molecules and Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC).
4. Laboratory for time and frequency transfer and optical frequency combs.