An interactive guide to quantum optics / Nikola Sibalic and C. Stuart Adams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sibalic, Nikola, author.

Stuart Adams, C., author.

Contributor:

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP series in quantum technology.

IPEM-IOP series in physics and engineering in medicine and biology.

IOP ebooks. 2023 collection.

IOP series in quantum technology

IOP ebooks. [2023 collection]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quantum optics.

Physical Description:

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

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2023]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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

Biography/History:

Nikola éSibalić studied physics at the University of Belgrade, Serbia and received a PhD from Durham University, UK, before doing postdoctoral research in Denmark and France. Currently he dedicates his days working in the quantum computing industry as product manager and solution architect, and his nights to developing and maintaining an ever growing array of open-source tools for knowledge sharing and (re)use. He relaxes by practising classical mechanics in the form of swing dancing. Find out more at nikolasibalic.github.io. C. Stuart Adams studied physics at the University of Oxford and received a PhD on laser physics from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK. He completed postdoctoral work in Germany and the United States before starting a research group at Durham University in 1995. He was awarded the Thomson medal in 2014 by the Institute of Physics (IoP) and the Holweck Prize in 2020 by the French Physical Society and IoP for pioneering work in atomic physics and quantum optics. He is co-author of the textbook Optics f2f. Find out more at etotheipiequals.github.io and opticsf2f.github.io/Opticsf2f_CodeBook/. Together they co-authored previously Rydberg Physics, IOPP (2018) https://doi.org/10.1088/978-0-7503-1635-4.

Summary:

This book provides the reader with an interactive experience of quantum optics, suitable for Final year undergraduate quantum optics students, and new graduate students in AMO physics.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Discovery of quantum optics

2.1. Optics timeline : from corpuscles and waves to photons

2.2. Classical, semi-classical or quantum?

2.3. From radio frequency electromagnetic fields controlling quantum systems to quantum optics and back

3. What is quantum in quantum optics?

3.1. Einstein's introduction of the photon concept

3.2. New types of dynamics brought by quantum theory

3.3. When are phenomena or technology quantum?

3.4. Single quanta, optics and biological systems

part I. One quanta. 4. One quanta

4.1. Introduction

4.2. What is a photon?

4.3. Photon properties

4.4. Photons as qubits

4.5. Photon polarization

4.6. The Bloch and Poincaré sphere

4.7. Photon polarization : linear basis

4.8. Density matrix

4.9. A photon beam splitter

4.10. Rotations

4.11. Waveguide beam splitter

4.12. Photon creation : a single-photon emitter

4.13. Mathematical description of light-matter interactions

4.14. Two-level system driven by a near-resonant field

4.15. Decay and decoherence

4.16. Detecting single photons : homodyne detection

5. Measurements : projective and non-destructive

5.1. Bang, and what happens next : quantum jumps and quantum regression theorem

5.2. Effects of jumps

5.3. Effects of information leakage : new coherent dynamics

5.4. On phase in quantum physics

6. Fighting environmental noise and imperfections

6.1. Ramsey sequence

6.2. Dynamical decoupling (bang-bang control)

6.3. Spin-echo

6.4. Switching external perturbation : Dicke narrowing

6.5. Non-Markov environments : coupling initially independent field modes

part II. Two or more quanta. 7. Two photons

7.1. Introduction

7.2. Two-photon interference

7.3. Hong-Ou-Mandel effect : Fock basis

7.4. Bell states

7.5. Polarization-entangled photons

7.6. Bell's inequality

7.7. Two-qubit visualization : rotations

7.8. Linear optics quantum computing

7.9. Hong-Ou-Mandel effect : non-symmetric network

7.10. Controlled-NOT gate

8. Seeing entanglement : counting and correlation

8.1. Introduction

8.2. Quantum erasure

8.3. Photon experiments

8.4. A quantum circuit model

9. Strong interactions

9.1. Introduction

9.2. Jaynes-Cummings model

part III. Outlook. 10. Outlook

10.1. Semiotics

10.2. Finding and connecting insights

10.3. Sharing in accessible and reusable form

10.4. Science versus decision making.

Notes:

"Version: 20240101"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on February 1, 2024).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780750326285

075032628X

9780750326278

0750326271

OCLC:

1420080823