Quantum optics : taming the quantum / Pierre Meystre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meystre, Pierre.

Series:

Graduate texts in physics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quantum optics.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (some colour).

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"This book is a thoroughly modern and highly pedagogical graduate-level introduction to quantum optics, a subject which has witnessed stunning developments in recent years and has come to occupy a central role in the 'second quantum revolution'. The reader is invited to explore the fundamental role that quantum optics plays in the control and manipulation of quantum systems, leading to ultracold atoms, circuit QED, quantum information science, quantum optomechanics, and quantum metrology. The building blocks of the subject are presented in a sequential fashion, starting from the simplest physical situations before moving to increasingly complicated ones. This pedagogically appealing approach leads to quantum entanglement and measurement theory being introduced early on and before more specialized topics such as cavity QED or laser cooling. The final chapter illustrates the power of scientific cross-fertilization by surveying cutting-edge applications of quantum optics and optomechanics in gravitational wave detection, tests of fundamental physics, searches for dark matter, geophysical monitoring, and ultraprecise clocks. Complete with worked examples and exercises, this book provides the reader with enough background knowledge and understanding to follow the current journal literature and begin producing their own original research."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Semiclassical atom-light interaction

Chapter 2. Electromagnetic field quantization

Chapter 3. The Jaynes-Cummings model

Chapter 4. Composite systems and entanglement

Chapter 5. Coupling to reservoirs

Chapter 6. Quantum measurements

Chapter 7. Tailoring the environment cavity QED

Chapter 8. Mechanical effects of light

Chapter 9. Laser cooling

Chapter 10. Bose-Einstein condensation

Chapter 11. Quantum optomechanics

Chapter 12. Outlook.

Notes:

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 5, 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: MEYSTRE, PIERRE. QUANTUM OPTICS.

ISBN:

9783030761837

3030761835

OCLC:

1262873575

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.