Quantum Optics for Beginners

ISBN-13: 9789814411752 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 350 str.

Zbigniew Ficek; Mohamed Ridza Wahiddin

Opis

Atomic correlations have been studied in physics for over 50 years and known as collective effects until recently when they came to be recognized as a source of entanglement. This is the first book that contains detailed and comprehensive analysis of two currently extensively studied subjects of atomic and quantum physics atomic correlations and their relations to entanglement between atoms or atomic systems along with the newest developments in these fields.

This book assembles accounts of many phenomena related to or resulting from atomic correlations. The essential language of the book is in terms of density matrices and master equations that provide detailed theoretical treatments and experimental analysis of phenomena such as entanglement between atoms, spontaneously or externally induced atomic coherence, engineering of atomic correlations, storage and controlled transfer of correlations, and dynamics of correlated systems."

Spis treści

General Description and Quantization of the EM Field. Hamiltonians for Quantum Optics. Detection of the EM Field. Representations of the EM Field. Photon Phase Operator. Squeezed States of Light. Phase Space Representations of the Density Operator. Single-Mode Interaction. Open Quantum Systems. Heisenberg Equations of Motion. Dressed Atom Model. Fokker-Planck Equation. Quantum Trajectory Theory. Interaction-Free Measurements. Classical and Quantum Interference. Atom-Atom Entanglement and the Bell States. Classical and Quantum Lithography. Laser Model in the High-Q Limit. Input-Output Theory. Motion of Atoms in a Laser Field.

O autorze

Zbigniew Ficek, Mohamed Ridza Wahiddin