An introduction to quantum optics : an open systems approach / Perry Rice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rice, Perry, author.

Contributor:

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP series in emerging technologies in optics and photonics.

IOP Series in Emerging Technologies in Optics and Photonics Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Open systems (Physics).

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, [2020]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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

Biography/History:

Dr Rice earned a BS in Physics at Wright State University in 1981. After two years in industry, he went to graduate school and earned a PhD in Physics at the University of Arkansas in 1988. He went on to become a professor of physics at Miami University for 30 years, and most recently is a Sr Research scientist at Azimuth Corporation. His research has been primarily in quantum optics and physics pedagogy, with specialties in cavity/waveguide quantum electrodynamics, nonclassical light, strongly coupled atom-field systems, quantum statistical mechanics, and computational methods including quantum trajectory theory.

Summary:

This book provides a solid pedagogical background in the techniques used in quantum optics, with an emphasis on open quantum systems. Suitable for undergraduates as a second semester quantum mechanics course or first year graduate students, this book begins with a short summary of quantum mechanics and contains physics of open systems and their application to light/matter interactions. Written in a simplified manner and classroom tested, this book provides the fundamentals of quantum optics and includes recent developments in the field.

Contents:

1. Introduction

1.1. What is quantum optics

1.2. Open quantum systems

1.3. This book

2. Classical electromagnetism and linear optics

2.1. Maxwell equations and electromagnetic waves

2.2. Wave equation for fields in a medium

2.3. Slowly varying envelope approximation

2.4. Lorentz oscillator model of the atom

3. QM review

3.1. Wave mechanics

3.2. Dirac notation

3.3. Representations and pictures

3.4. Pictures

3.5. Density matrix

3.6. Choice of basis and measurement

3.7. Executive summary

3.8. Entanglement

4. Two-level dynamics

4.1. Two-level atoms

4.2. Atom-field interaction in the electric dipole approximation

4.3. Introduction to dressed states

4.4. Perturbation theory and rate equations

4.5. Pauli operators and the Bloch sphere representation

4.6. Relation to the classical Lorentz model

4.7. An interlude in the form of the atom-field interaction

5. Quantum fields

5.1. Maxwell equations again

5.2. Quantization of the electromagnetic field

5.3. Single mode quantized fields

5.4. Number states

5.5. Coherent states

5.6. Squeezed states

5.7. Cat states

5.8. Thermal states

5.9. Vacuum fluctuations and beam splitters

5.10. Casimir effect

6. Two-level atom coupled to a quantized field

6.1. Atom-field interaction in quantum optics

6.2. Wigner-Weisskopf approximation

6.3. Cavity modified spontaneous emission

6.4. Dressed states reprise

6.5. Heisenberg equations of motion

6.6. Collapse and revivals of population inversion

6.7. Vacuum fluctuations and radiation reaction

7. Coherence and detection

7.1. Detection of a noiseless classical signal

7.2. Complex analytic signal

7.3. Semiclassical photodetection theory

7.4. Quantum detection theory

7.5. Optical spectra and first-order coherence

7.6. Photon statistics and second-order coherence

7.7. Balanced homodyne detection and the spectrum of squeezing

7.8. Wave-particle duality and conditioned homodyne detection

7.9. Cross-correlation functions

8. The density matrix and the master equation or wave functions : the big lie

8.1. Open quantum systems

8..2 Density matrix and reduced density matrix

8.3. The master equation with dissipation

8.4. Quantum regression theorem

8.5. Derivation of the master equation in the Born-Markoff approximation

8.6. Other types of reservoirs

8.7. Alternative derivation of Lindblad equation

9. Quantum trajectory theory

9.1. Some examples

9.2. And now for a little formality

9.3. Homodyne detection and quantum state diffusion

9.4. Two-time averages

9.5. Some final thoughts on trajectories

10. Quasiprobability distributions

10.1. Glauber-Sudarshan P representation

10.2. Wigner distribution

10.3. Husimi Q function

10.4. Fokker-Planck equations

10.5. Fermions

10.6. Langevin equations.

Notes:

"Version: 20200901"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on October 5, 2020).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780750317122

0750317124

9780750317139

0750317132

OCLC:

1199053984