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
5 - Quantum coherence functions
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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- Introductory Quantum Optics , pp. 115 - 134Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004
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