Spring 2010, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park
Credits 2
Prerequisites for Graduate Students: none.
Prerequisite for Undergraduate students: senior standing and approval of faculty responsible for the course.
Faculty responsible for the course: Luis A. Orozco, CSS 2203, (301) 405 9740 lorozco@umd.edu
The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the research groups carrying out research on quantum optical information in the Joint Quantum Institute of the Physics Department and NIST. The students spend half of a semester working with one of the active groups that are involved with quantum information using optics. They should plan to be at the laboratory at least three hours a week. At the end of each rotation they make a public presentation (ten minutes maximum, APS format) and prepare a web page with their results.
This semester there may be possible experimental and/or theoretical projects with:
Steven L. Rolston rolston@umd.edu ,
Christopher Monroe Monroe@umd.edu,
Wendell Hill, wth@umd.edu ,
Luis A. Orozco lorozco@umd.edu ,
Bei-Lok Hu hub@physics.umd.edu
Schedule:
January 27. Organizational meeting where the professors present different projects to the students in PHY1305.
February 3. Last day to send Luis Orozco e-mail by with the information on the first optics rotation, first rotation starts.
March 10. Last date to send Luis Orozco an e-mail about where your second rotation will take place.
March 17. Spring Break
March 24. First rotation ends, secon rotation starts
March 31 . First rotation presentation and web page due at noon (this is after you have started your second rotation).
May 5. Second rotation ends.
May 12. Second rotation presentation at 4:00 PM in place TBD and web page due at noon.
Grading:
The grade of the course will be:
60% laboratory performance as given by the advisors on the rotations
20% presentation
20% web page
Web pages for first rotation:
Web pages for second rotation:
Web page from Jiehang Zhang: A study of the dichroic atomic vapor lock signal.
Last updated by L. A. Orozco on May 12, 2010