The quantum nature of light : from photon states to quantum fluids of light / J.T. Mendonça.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mendonça, J. T. (José Tito), author.

Contributor:

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP (Series). Release 22.

IOP series in quantum technology.

IOP ebooks. 2022 collection.

[IOP release $release]

IOP series in quantum technology

IOP ebooks. [2022 collection]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quantum optics.

Light.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Other Title:

From photon states to quantum fluids of light.

Place of Publication:

Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2022]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.

Biography/History:

Professor José Tito Mendonça is the scientific coordinator of the Laboratory for Quantum Plasmas (LQP) of the Instituto de Plasmas e Fusäao Nuclear (IPFN), and a retired Full Professor of the Physics Department of the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST). As a former Head of the Physics Department of IST and a former Director of the Association Euratom-IST for Fusion Research he developed pioneering work on photon acceleration, neutrino-MHD and twisted waves in plasmas.

Summary:

This book provides an overview of quantum light phenomena and extends the traditional Quantum Optics, to include quantum fluids of light and the complete electromagnetic vacuum. The first part of the book includes basic electromagnetic field quantisation, the characterisation of quantum photon states and elementary photon-atom interactions. Secondly, quantum fluids of light are explored such as recent areas as Bose-Einstein condensation, light vortices and superfluid light. Finally, the last section of the book focusses on a more complete description of quantum vacuum, which includes electron-positron states. The book is intended to make the bridge between these three somewhat distinct aspects of the quantum states of light. The main audiences for the book include researchers and advanced students in quantum technology including quantum optics, metrology and computing. Part of IOP Series in Quantum Technology.

Contents:

1. Introduction

1.1. Motivation

1.2. Photons, waves and fields

1.3. A necessary note

part I. Basic photon states. 2. Field quantisation

2.1. Quantum mechanical background

2.2. Harmonic oscillator

2.3. Electromagnetic field quantisation

2.4. Canonical quantisation

2.5. Photon wavefunction

2.6. Quantisation in a medium

3. Coherence

3.1. Coherent states

3.2. Field representations

3.3. Squeezed states

3.4. Correlations

3.5. Photon entanglement

4. Photon-atom interactions

4.1. Hamiltonians

4.2. Quantum Rabi model

4.3. Three-level atom

4.4. Spontaneous emission

4.5. Reduced density method

4.6. Resonant scattering

5. Boundary effects

5.1. Cavity losses

5.2. Atom in a cavity

5.3. Beam splitters

5.4. Time refraction

5.5. Temporal beam splitters

5.6. Time-crystals

5.7. Casimir force

5.8. Space-time symmetries

5.9. Curved space-time

part II. Quantum fluids of light. 6. Laser

6.1. Balance equations

6.2. Laser cavity

6.3. Phenomenological laser model

6.4. Relaxation oscillations

6.5. Short laser pulses

6.6. Amplified spontaneous emission

6.7. Susceptibility

6.8. Semi-classical laser theory

6.9. Quantum laser theory

7. Bose-Einstein condensates

7.1. Basic concepts

7.2. Photon condensation

7.3. Condensation in plasma

7.4. Polariton condensation

7.5. BEC-laser transition

7.6. Photon kinetics

8. Collective atomic emission

8.1. Superradiance

8.2. Collective recoil emission

8.3. Quantum recoil

8.4. Cyclotron superradiance

9. Light vortices

9.1. Photon OAM

9.2. Light springs and fractional vorticity

9.3. POAM in optical media

9.4. Quantum optics with OAM

10. Superfluid light

10.1. Fluid equations of light

10.2. Superfluid turbulence

10.3. A tale of two fluids

10.4. Superfluid currents

part III. Quantum vacuum. 11. Basic QED concepts

11.1. Klein-Gordon equation

11.2. Dirac equation

11.3. Volkov states

11.4. Quantisation of the Dirac field

11.5. Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangian

12. Particle pair creation

12.1. Klein paradox

12.2. Temporal Klein model

12.3. Time-varying fields

12.4. Nonlinear trident process

13. Nonlinear vacuum

13.1. Vacuum birefringence

13.2. Photon acceleration

13.3. Photon-photon scattering

13.4. Vacuum undulator

13.5. Superradiant vacuum

14. The axions

14.1. Axion-photon coupling

14.2. Axion polariton

14.3. Axion beam instability

14.4. Axion wakes

14.5. Shinning through wall

Appendix A. Elementary quantum

Appendix B. Lagrangians

Appendix C. Photon kinetic equation

Appendix D. Curved spacetime.

Notes:

"Version: 20220901"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on October 5, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780750327862

9780750327855

OCLC:

1346997800

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