Essential Quantum Optics
eBook - PDF

Essential Quantum Optics

From Quantum Measurements to Black Holes

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Essential Quantum Optics

From Quantum Measurements to Black Holes

About this book

Covering some of the most exciting trends in quantum optics - quantum entanglement, teleportation, and levitation - this textbook is ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. The book journeys through the vast field of quantum optics following a single theme: light in media. A wide range of subjects are covered, from the force of the quantum vacuum to astrophysics, from quantum measurements to black holes. Ideas are explained in detail and formulated so that students with little prior knowledge of the subject can follow them. Each chapter ends with several short questions followed by a more detailed homework problem, designed to test the reader and show how the ideas discussed can be applied. Solutions to homework problems are available at www.cambridge.org/9780521869782.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. 1 Introduction
  7. 2 Quantum field theory of light
  8. 3 Simple quantum states of light
  9. 4 Quasiprobability distributions
  10. 5 Simple optical instruments
  11. 6 Irreversible processes
  12. 7 Entanglement
  13. 8 Horizons
  14. Appendix A Stress of the quantum vacuum
  15. Appendix B State reconstruction in quantum mechanics
  16. References
  17. Index