Electrons, Cold Atoms & Quantum Circuits (888F3)
15 credits, Level 7 (Masters)
Spring teaching
Topics covered include:
- Penning trapping of ions
- the continuous Stern-Gerlach effect and measurement of the spin
- applications including tests of QED and quantum technology with trapped electrons
- Ioffe-Pritchard trapping of neutral atoms
- basics of Bose-Einstein condensation
- matter wave interferometry in atom chips.
Teaching
100%: Lecture
Assessment
60%: Coursework (Problem set)
40%: Examination (Computer-based examination)
Contact hours and workload
This module is approximately 150 hours of work. This breaks down into about 22 hours of contact time and about 128 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.
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