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This book explains what quantum states of light look like. Of special interest, a single photon state is explained by using a wave picture, showing that it corresponds to the complementarity of a quantum. Also explained is how light waves are created by photons, again corresponding to the complement...
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| Published: |
Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Tokyo : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
SpringerBriefs in mathematical physics,
volume 10 |
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| Summary: |
This book explains what quantum states of light look like. Of special interest, a single photon state is explained by using a wave picture, showing that it corresponds to the complementarity of a quantum. Also explained is how light waves are created by photons, again corresponding to the complementarity of a quantum. The author shows how an optical wave is created by superposition of a "vacuum" and a single photon as a typical example. Moreover, squeezed states of light are explained as "longitudinal" waves of light and Schrödinger's cat states as macroscopic superposition states.-- |
| Item Description: | "This book was originally written in Japanese and published by Uchida Roukakuho in 2013." |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 104 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9784431559580 4431559582 |
| Index Number: | QC446 |
| CLC: | O431.2 |
| Call Number: | O431.2/F992 |
| Contents: | 1. Quantum states of light -- 1-1 Quantum optics -- 1-2 Coherent states -- 1-3 Balanced homodyne measurements -- 1-4 Single-photon state -- 1-5 Fock states -- 1-6 Super position of a vacuum and a single photon -- 1-7 Coherent states and Schrodinger's cat states -- 1-8 Wigner function -- 1-9 Super position of a vacuum and a two-photon state -- 1-10 Squeezed states -- 1-11 Squeezing operation -- 1-12 Quantum entanglement -- 2. Generation of quantum states of light -- 2-1 Generation of coherent states -- 2-2 Generation of squeezed states -- 2-3 Generation of a single-photon state -- 2-4 Generat |