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almafu_9959239886402883
Format:
1 online resource (xxi, 630 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-316-08471-X
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1-139-63583-2
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1-139-64862-4
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1-139-63816-5
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1-139-64100-X
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0-511-81399-6
Content:
The field of quantum optics has witnessed significant theoretical and experimental developments in recent years. This book provides an in-depth and wide-ranging introduction to the subject, emphasising throughout the basic principles and their applications. The book begins by developing the basic tools of quantum optics, and goes on to show the application of these tools in a variety of quantum optical systems, including lasing without inversion, squeezed states and atom optics. The final four chapters are devoted to a discussion of quantum optical tests of the foundations of quantum mechanics, and to particular aspects of measurement theory. Assuming only a background of standard quantum mechanics and electromagnetic theory, and containing many problems and references, this book will be invaluable to graduate students of quantum optics, as well as to researchers in this field.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Quantum theory of radiation; 1.1 Quantization of the free electromagnetic field; 1.1.1 Mode expansion of the field; 1.1.2 Quantization; 1.1.3 Commutation relations between electric and magnetic field components; 1.2 Fock or number states; 1.3 Lamb shift; 1.4 Quantum beats; 1.5 What is light? - The photon concept; 1.5.1 Vacuum fluctuations and the photon concept; 1.5.2 Vacuum fluctuations; 1.5.3 Quantum beats, the quantum eraser, Bell's theorem, and more; 1.5.4 'Wave function for photons'
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1.A: Equivalence between a many-particle Bose gas and a set of quantized harmonic oscillatorsProblems; References and bibliography; 2 Coherent and squeezed states of the radiation field; 2.1 Radiation from a classical current; 2.2 The coherent state as an eigenstate of the annihilation operator and as a displaced harmonic oscillator state; 2.3 What is so coherent about coherent states?; 2.4 Some properties of coherent states; 2.5 Squeezed state physics; 2.6 Squeezed states and the uncertainty relation; 2.7 The squeeze operator and the squeezed coherent states; 2.7.1 Quadrature variance
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2.8 Multi-mode squeezingProblems; References and bibliography; 3 Quantum distribution theory and partially coherent radiation; 3.1 Coherent state representation; 3.1.1 Definition of the coherent state representation; 3.1.2 Examples of the coherent state representation; 3.2 Q-representation; 3.3 The Wigner-Weyl distribution; 3.4 Generalized representation of the density operator and connection between the P -, Q-, and W -distributions; 3.5 Q-representation for a squeezed coherent state; 3.A: Verifying equations (3.1.12a, 3,1.12b)
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3.B: c-number function correspondence for the Wigner-Weyl distributionProblems; References and bibliography; 4 Field-field and photon-photon interferometry; 4.1 The interferometer as a cosmic probe; 4.1.1 Michelson interferometer and general relativity; 4.1.2 The Sagnac ring interferometer; 4.1.3 Proposed ring laser test of metric gravitation theories; 4.1.4 The Michelson stellar interferometer; 4.1.5 Hanbury-Brown-Twiss interferometer; 4.2 Photon detection and quantum coherence functions; 4.3 First-order coherence and Young-type double-source experiments; 4.3.1 Young's double-slit experiment
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4.3.2 Young's experiment with light from two atoms4.4 Second-order coherence; 4.4.1 The physics behind the Hanbury-Brown-Twiss effect; 4.4.2 Detection and measurement of squeezed states viahomodyne detection; 4.4.3 Interference of two photons; 4.4.4 Photon antibunching, Poissonian, and sub-Poissonian light; 4.5 Photon counting and photon statistics; 4.A: Classical and quantum descriptions of two-source interference; 4.B: Calculation of the second-order correlation function; Problems; References and bibliography; 5 Atom-field interaction - semiclassical theory
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5.1 Atom-field interaction Hamiltonian
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-43595-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-43458-0
Language:
English
Subjects:
Physics
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