Boulder School 2021: Lecture Notes

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Week 1, July 5-9, 2021

July 5 

  • Introduction and overview [Video]
  • E. Cornell, Cooling, trapping: BEC & recent developments I [Slides] [Video]
  • A. Browaeys, Rydberg atoms in optical tweezers I [Notes] [Video]
  • J. Ye, Molecules, clocks, metrology I [slides] [Video]

July 6

  • A. Browaeys, Rydberg atoms in optical tweezers II [Notes] [Video]
  • E. Cornell, Cooling, trapping: BEC & recent developments II [Slides] [Video]
  • M. Parish, BEC/BCS crossover & imbalanced Fermi gas I [Slides] [Video]
  • Public Lecture: Wolfgang Ketterle, New forms of matter near absolute zero temperature [Video]

July 7

  • A. Browaeys, Rydberg atoms in optical tweezers III [Notes] [Video]
  • J. Ye, Molecules, clocks, metrology II [slides] [Video]
  • R. Hulet, Lattice fermions, magnetism imbalanced FFLO I  [Video]

July 8

  • R. Hulet, Lattice fermions, magnetism imbalanced FFLO II [Video]
  • L. Radzihovsky, seminar: s-wave resonant boson superfluidity [Notes] [Video]
  • M. Parish, BEC/BCS crossover & imbalanced Fermi gas II [Video]

July 9

  • R. Hulet, Lattice, fermions, magnetism imbalanced FFLO III [Video]
  • M. Parish, BEC/BCS crossover & imbalanced Fermi gas III [Video]

Week 2, July 12-16, 2021

July 12

July 13

  • S. Diehl, Keldysh and Lindblad dynamics II [Video]
  • S. Diehl, Keldysh and Lindblad dynamics III [Video]
  • C. Monroe, Quantum computation with atoms and ions II [Slides] [Video]

July 14

July 15

  • N. Cooper, Quantum Hall, topological insulators, dynamics II [Handouts] [Video]
  • T. Esslinger, Synthetic dimensions, Floquet dynamics II [Video]
  • D. Huse, Many-body localization, dynamics III [Video]
  • C. Monroe, Quantum computation with atoms and ions III [Slides] [Video]

July 16

  • T. Esslinger, Synthetic dimensions, Floquet dynamics III [Video]
  • J. Bollinger, Seminar: Trapped Ions [Slides] [Video]
  • N. Cooper, Quantum Hall, topological insulators, dynamics III [Handouts] [Video]

Week 3, July 19-23, 2021

July 19

July 20

  • E. Altman, Scrambling, MBL, open quantum dynamics I [Slides] [Video]
  • W. Bakr, Quantum gas microscopy I [Slides] [Video]
  • A. Gorshkov, Quantum optics and information II [Slides] [Video

July 21

  • A. Gorshkov, Quantum optics and information III [Slides] [Video]
  • W. Bakr, Quantum gas microscopy II [Video]
  • A.M. Rey, SU(N) magnets with Alkaline-earth atoms II [Video]

July 22

  • E. Altman, Scrambling, MBL, open quantum dynamics II [Video]
  • K. Lehnert, Seminar: Frontiers of opto-mechanics [Slides] [Video]
  • I. Spielman, Seminar: Synthetic magnetic fields [Slides] [Video]

July 23

  • E. Altman, Scrambling, MBL, open quantum dynamics III [Video]
  • W. Bakr, Quantum gas microscopy III [Video]

Week 4, July 26-30, 2021

July 26

  • I. Bloch, Many-body localization, dynamics experiments I [Slides] [Video]
  • T. Giamarchi, Low dimensional quantum gases I [Handwritten Notes] [PDF Slides] [PPT Slides] [Video]
  • J. Thompson, Cavity QED systems: metrology with collective states I [Video]
  • K. Hazzard, Seminar: Synthetic dimension: ultracold molecules, Rydberg atoms, and momentum-space lattices [Video]

July 27

  • I. Bloch, Many-body localization, dynamics experiments II [Video]
  • T. Giamarchi, Low dimensional quantum gases II [Video]
  • J. Thompson, Cavity QED systems: metrology with collective states II [Video]

July 28

  • M. Aidelsburger, Gauge fields and spin-orbit coupling I [Notes1] [Notes2] [Slides] [Video]
  • I. Bloch, Many-body localization, dynamics experiments III [Video]
  • J. Thompson, Cavity QED systems: metrology with collective states III [Video]
  • A. Asenjo, Seminar: Atom-light interactions [Notes] [Video]

July 29

  • M. Aidelsburger, Gauge fields and spin-orbit coupling II [Slides] [Video]
  • T. Giamarchi, Low dimensional quantum gases III [Video]
  • K. Ni, Microtrapped molecules and ultracold chemistry I [Slides] [Video]

July 30

  • M. Aidelsburger, Gauge fields and spin-orbit coupling III [Slides] [Video]
  • K. Ni, Microtrapped molecules and ultracold chemistry II [Slides] [Video]