AEP 4400/5400 Nonlinear and Quantum Optics

A course offered to upper-level undergraduates and graduate students presenting a unified classical and quantum treatment of nonlinear optics. Topics covered include the nonlinear susceptibility and its formal properties, second- and third-order classical nonlinear optics, quantization of the electromagnetic field in nonlinear media, quantum states of light, sub-shot-noise interferometry, and the quantum theory of parametric amplifiers, parametric oscillators, and squeezing via the Kerr effect.

• Overview of course
• Nonlinear response
• Effects arising from second-order nonlinearity
• Effects arising from third-order nonlinearity
• Quantum states of light
• Quantum nonlinear optics
• Combined notes

Some additional materials: Syllabus, Practice Exams (Exam 1, Exam 2, Final Exam).

AEP 4230/5230 Statistical Physics

An upper-level undergraduate course on statistical physics, covering thermodynamics, probability, classical and quantum statistical mechanics, interacting systems, and Langevin dynamics. In 2025 we used Kardar’s Statistical Physics of Particles as the text for most of the course. You can find typed lecture notes for the first portion of the course here, with typed notes for the rest forthcoming.

• Thermodynamics
• Probability
• Classical Statistical Mechanics
• Interacting Systems
• Combined notes from second half of class
• Quantum noise

Some additional materials: Syllabus, Practice Exams (Exam 1, Exam 2, Final Exam).

Macroscopic Quantum Electrodynamics

Notes co-authored with Jamison Sloan summarizing topics presented to undergraduate researchers covering time-dependent perturbation theory, linear response, field quantization in dielectrics, atom-photon interaction, and macroscopic quantum electrodynamics. Formed part of the basis for an expanded review presenting a high-level review of the field authored with Ido Kaminer.

• Notes
• Review

Selected slides from previous talks

Here, you’ll find some slides from various talks on research topics.

• Talk on controlling quantum noise in multimode nonlinear systems presented at Joint Quantum Institute (pdf; repo associated with the talk)
• Talk on theory of quantum nonlinear multimode noise dynamics in fibers (pdf; presented by Jamison Sloan as a Highlighted Talk at CLEO:2025)
• Guest Lecture for MIT's 18.369 Mathematical Methods of Nanophotonics (Spring 2024) on modeling nonequilibrium radiation such as in scintillators (pdf)
• Talk presented at Harvard Condensed Matter Physics seminar on PhD thesis work (2021) (pdf)