Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Field quantization
- 3 Coherent states
- 4 Emission and absorption of radiation by atoms
- 5 Quantum coherence functions
- 6 Beam splitters and interferometers
- 7 Nonclassical light
- 8 Dissipative interactions and decoherence
- 9 Optical test of quantum mechanics
- 10 Experiments in cavity QED and with trapped ions
- 11 Applications of entanglement: Heisenberg-limited interferometry and quantum information processing
- Appendix A The density operator, entangled states, the Schmidt decomposition, and the von Neumann entropy
- Appendix B Quantum measurement theory in a (very small) nutshell
- Appendix C Derivation of the effective Hamiltonian for dispersive (far off-resonant) interactions
- Appendix D Nonlinear optics and spontaneous parametric down-conversion
- Index
- References
2 - Field quantization
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Field quantization
- 3 Coherent states
- 4 Emission and absorption of radiation by atoms
- 5 Quantum coherence functions
- 6 Beam splitters and interferometers
- 7 Nonclassical light
- 8 Dissipative interactions and decoherence
- 9 Optical test of quantum mechanics
- 10 Experiments in cavity QED and with trapped ions
- 11 Applications of entanglement: Heisenberg-limited interferometry and quantum information processing
- Appendix A The density operator, entangled states, the Schmidt decomposition, and the von Neumann entropy
- Appendix B Quantum measurement theory in a (very small) nutshell
- Appendix C Derivation of the effective Hamiltonian for dispersive (far off-resonant) interactions
- Appendix D Nonlinear optics and spontaneous parametric down-conversion
- Index
- References
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J. S. Townsend, A Modern Approach to Quantum Mechanics (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992)
J. J. Sakurai, Modern Quantum Mechanics, revised edition (Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1994)
E. A. Power, Introductory Quantum Electrodynamics (New York: American Elsevier, 1965)
E. G. Harris, A Pedestrian Approach to Quantum Field Theory (New York: Wiley, 1972)
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