Introductory quantum optics /
Quantum optics remains one of the liveliest fields in physics. While it has been a dominant research field for at least four decades, with much graduate activity, it has now impacted the undergraduate curriculum. This book developed from courses we have taught to final-year undergraduates and beginn...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2024.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Field quantization
- Coherent states
- Emission and absorption of radiation by atoms
- Quantum coherence functions
- Beam splitters and interferometers
- Nonclassical Light
- Dissipative interactions and decoherence
- Optical test of quantum mechanics
- Experiments in cavity QED and with trapped ions
- Applications of entanglement: Heisenberg-limited interferometry and quantum information processing
- The density operator, entangled states, the Schmidt decomposition, and the Von Neumann entropy
- Quantum measurement theory in a (very small) nutshell
- Derivation of the effective Hamiltonian for dispersive (far off-resonant) interactions
- Nonlinear optics and spontaneous parametric down-conversion.