Introductory Quantum Optics
Introductory Quantum Optics
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This elementary introduction to the subject of quantum optics, the study of the quantum mechanical nature of light and its interaction with matter, is almost entirely concerned with the quantized electromagnetic field. The text is designed for upper-level undergraduates taking courses in quantum optics who have already taken a course in quantum mechanics, and for first- and second- year graduate students.
- The only modern undergraduate textbook on quantum optics
- Includes a large number of homework problems, with solutions available from solutions@cambridge.org
- Contains description of many of the latest experiments and applications of quantum optics to quantum information processing
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'… the book is well argued throughout and subject applications are explained beautifully.' The Times Higher Education Supplement
Product details
- Published: November 2004
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780521527354
- Length: 332 pages
- Dimensions: 246 × 189 × 19 mm
- Weight: 0.736kg
- Contains: 101 b/w illus. 3 tables 150 exercises
- Availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Field quantization
- 3. Coherent states
- 4. Emission and absorption of radiation by atoms
- 5. Quantum coherence functions
- 6. Beam splitters and interferometers
- 7. Nonclassical light
- 8. Dissipative interactions and decoherence
- 9. Optical test of quantum mechanics
- 10. Experiments in cavity QED and with trapped ions
- 11. Applications of entanglement: Heisenberg-limited interferometry and quantum information processing
- Appendix A. The density operator, entangled states, the Schmidt decomposition, and the von Neumann entropy
- Appendix B. Quantum measurement theory in a (very small) nutshell
- Appendix C. Derivation of the effective Hamiltonian for dispersive (far off-resonant) interactions
- Appendix D. Nonlinear optics and spontaneous parametric down-conversion.
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