Screen LibraryIntroductory 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...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2024. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Second edition. |
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"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 beginning graduate students at Imperial College London and City University of New York"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xvi, 414 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781009415293 1009415298 |
| Index Number: | QC446 |
| CLC: | O431.2 |
| Call Number: | O431.2/G379/2nd ed. |
| 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. |