Physics 605, 573, 643
Spring 2012
Dr. Christian Parigger
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy
The Center for Laser Applications
The University of Tennessee Space Institute
E-mail: cparigge@tennessee.edu
Phys 605 Laser Spectroscopy (3)
SEC. 001 CRN 29055
1:00 - 2:15 p.m. Central Time, on Monday and Thursday, E113 at UTSI
2:00 - 3:15 p.m. Eastern Time, on Monday and Thursday in South College Room 107 at UTK
TEXT: Classic books, on-line references, lecture and lab notes: (1) several textbooks will be used to review classical laser spectroscopy: "Laser Spectroscopy," Demtröder; "Atomic and Laser Spectroscopy," Corney; "Introduction to Nonlinear Laser Spectroscopy," Levenson; "Aux Frontieres de la Spectroscopie Laser," Les Houches, Vol. 1, 2 ed. Balian, Haroche, Liberman; "Laser Spectroscopy," ed. Brewer, Mooradian, "Physics Reports: High resolution spectroscopy with lasers," Demtröder; (2) current topics by use of on-line journals, including "Applied spectroscopy," "Journal of quantitative spectroscopy & radiative transfer," "Optics and spectroscopy," "Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular Spectroscopy," "Spectrochimica acta. Part A (Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy) and B (Atomic spectroscopy);" "Journal of Physics B, Atomic, molecular and optical physics," "Review of Modern Physics," e.g. "Laser Spectroscopy and Quantum Optics," Hänsch and Walther, OSA publications, and PROLA (Physical Review Online Archive) http://prola.aps.org ; (3) selected lecture notes and laboratory notes.
Applications of lasers to spectroscopy of atomic and molecular systems; absorption, laser-induced fluorescence, and Raman spectroscopy; molecular and atomic coherence, quantum beats, resonance fluorescence, photon echoes, self-induced transparency; saturation and Doppler-free spectroscopy; laser cooling and trapping. (DE) Prerequisite(s): 521 and 541. Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
Phys 573 Numerical Methods in Physics (3)/Math 518
This course can also be taken at the 643 level: Phys643 (see below)
SEC. 002 CRN 25162
2:30 to 3:45 PM, Central Time, Monday/Thursday, E113 at UTSI
3:30 to 4:45 PM, Eastern Time, Monday/Thursday, in South College Room 107 at UTK
TEXT: Survey of Computational Physics; Rubin Landau et al.; Princeton; Numerical Recipes, The Art of Scientific Computing; THIRD EDITION; W. H. Press et al., ISBN 978-0521-88068-8; and selected other references and example codes, e.g., Schmid et al, Theoretical Physics on the Personal Computer, Springer, 1990, including references to computer languages such as FORTRAN, C, C++, Java, and/or implementations of software packages / libraries. Focus of 573 will be the former sections of the Landau et al book (http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8704.html) and the Num. Recipes book. The book George Arfken and Hans Weber; Mathematical Methods for Physicists; 6th Edition; ISBN 0-12-059876-0, will also be used to address numerical aspects of Mathematical Methods
Numerical methods for solution of physical problems, use of digital computers, analysis of errors. This course can also be taken at the 643 level – with advanced problems from latter section of the course books, see below.
(DE) Prerequisite(s): 571 or consent of instructor.
Phys 643 Computational Physics (3)
SEC. 001 (In part Video Recorded)
TEXT: TBD
Developing computer algorithms for solving representative problems in various fields of physics, celestial dynamics in astrophysics, boundary value problems in the electromagnetism, atomic and nuclear structures, band structure in solid state physics, transport problems in statistical mechanics, Monte Carlo simulation of liquids, fitting and interpolation of data, correlation analysis, or optimization strategy. Prerequisite(s): 521, 531, and 571.kk The Computational Physics Phys643 course includes several invited lectures from various universities. The syllabus shows contents derived mainly from two books: (i) Numerical Recipes, 3rd edition, [NR], and (ii) A Survey of Computational Physics, Princeton 2008 edition, [CP]. Emphasize the last 10 chapters of the CP-book, and the last 11 chapters of the NR-book. Basically focus on second half of both books. And there will be elaboration on several research problems and solutions. There will be selected, advanced problems as well, e.g., Rabioscillations' numerical solution, Monte-Carlo solution of Feynman-Path-Integral, Numerical solution of integral equations (viz. scattering). And from time to time other books will be referenced as well, e.g., DeVries "A first Course in Computational Physics" or Zwillinger "Handbook of Differential Equations." The latter shows reasonable portion (30%) of numerical solutions of ODE's and PDE's other than very good classifications. Selected exercises will be assigned. Such exercise will be due and discussed well ahead of the due time, both e-mail and potentially e-video will be used.
Further Information: This 600-level course shows departmental and registration system enforced pre-requisites of Mathematical Methods for Physicists (Phys571 or Math517), Classical Mechanics (Phys531) and Quantum Mechanics (Phys521). For an interdisciplinary, 600-level course at UTSI, these prerequisites may need to be reviewed, possibly similar courses maybe allowed in place of these Physics courses. This approach of cross-recognition would be reasonable for our PhD students. For example, Numerical Mathematics courses (Math571/572) may be acceptable in place of Phys571, Thermodynamics I/II (ME521/522) in place of Phys521 [ME521/522 shows explicit reference to "kinetic theory, statistical mechanics, quantum physics, Schroedinger equation"] and Fluid Mechanics I/II (ME541/542) in place of Classical Mechanics. Engineering students are encouraged to enroll. Specific Topics Include: Fourier Series/transforms, Autocorrelation, An-harmonic oscillator, Classical Chaotic Scattering, Bifurcations and Chaotic Pendulum, Digital Wavelet Transform, Logistic Map, High-Throughput Computing: Condor, High-Performance Computing: Mpich2,Metropolis algorithm, Feynman Path Integration, Radiation Transfer Equation and Diffusion for Photon Transport in Biological Tissue, Diffusion Limited Aggregation, Diffusion Limited Aggregation, Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Finite Element Method via Galerkin Spectral Decomposition, Crank-Nicolson Method, Wave Equation for a String, Time-dependent Schroedinger Equation: Quantum Wave Packet Implementation and Animation, Diffraction of a 2D Wave Packet, Circularly polarized Electromagnetic Waves, Burgers Shock Equation, Korteweg and deVries Equation (solitons), Navier Stokes Equation, Gaussian Integration for Integral Equations, Delta-Shell Potential Scattering.