Quantum Optics

Produktbeschreibung

Quantum optics: an introduction is a modern textbook written primarily for advanced undergraduate and masters level students in physics. In addition to standard topics, the text includes a broad range of topics in applied quantum optics such as laser cooling, Bose-Einstein condensation and quantum information processing. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Introduction and background
1: Introduction
2: Classical optics
3: Quantum mechanics
4: Radiative transitions in atoms
Part II: Photons
5: Photon statistics
6: Photon antibunching
7: Coherent states and squeezed light
8: Photon number states
Part III: Atom--photon interactions
9: Resonant light--atom interactions
10: Atoms in cavities
11: Cold atoms
Part IV: Quantum information processing
12: Quantum cryptography
13: Quantum computing
14: Entangled states and quantum teleportation
Appendices
A: Poisson statistics
B: Parametric amplification
C: The density of states
D: Low dimensional semiconductor structures
E: Nuclear magnetic resonance
F: Bose--Einstein condensation 

Kritik

'Fox has done a remarkable job at picking the key topics from a broad field. A genuinely interesting experiment in undergraduate education could be put together on the basis of Fox's textbook.' Physics Today, September 2007 

Autoreninfo

Dr A M Fox is Reader in Physics, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7RH, UK.