
Lecture for UvA light-atom interaction
- This is a lecture to introduce all necessary background to understand light-atom interaction and see how it connects to quantum computing with neutral atoms.
- Last Updated: Jun 22, 2026
- Published: Mar 15, 2023
Table of Contents
Hamiltonian light-atom interaction
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Please find the main part of the lecture here, where we introduce rotating-frame, add rotating-wave approximation. We introduce density matrix describing a two-level atom. We prove that under the Hamiltonian derived earlier density matrix as a vector inside of Bloch ball will precess.