Quantum Optics and Fundamentals of Physics

Quantum Optics and Fundamentals of Physics by Jan Perina, Z. Hradil, B. Jurco.

In last years increasing attention has been again devoted to interpretations of quantum theory. In the same time interesting quantum optical experiments have been performed using nonlinear optical processes, in particular frequency down conversion, which provided new information about nature of a ph...

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Main Authors: Perina, Jan (Author), Hradil, Z. (Author), Jurco, B. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1994.
Edition:1st ed. 1994.
Series:Fundamental Theories of Physics, 63
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Quantum physics.
Atoms.
Physics.
Lasers.
Photonics.
Electrical engineering.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Fundamentals of quantum theroy
  • 2.1 Axioms of quantum mechanics
  • 2.2 More on quantum mechanics: states, observables and yes-no experiments
  • 2.3 Time evolution
  • 2.4 Uncertainty relations
  • 2.5 Symmetries
  • 2.6 Canonical quantization
  • 2.7 Identical particles and the second quantization
  • 2.8 Quantization of the free electromagnetic field
  • 2.9 Quantum correlation functions and their properties
  • 2.10 Appendix: mathematical tools
  • 3 Quantum theory of measurement
  • 3.1 Foundation of quantum measurement
  • 3.2 Formalism of quantum measurement
  • 3.3 Quantum optical measurements
  • 3.4 Quantum phase
  • 3.5 Linear amplifiers
  • 3.6 Quantum nondemolition measurement
  • 3.7 High-precision measurement and detection of gravitational waves
  • 4 Coherent states
  • 4.1 The general notion of the coherent state
  • 4.2 Coherent states associated with Lie groups
  • 4.3 Coherent states of the harmonic oscillator
  • 4.4 Squeezed states
  • 4.5 Spin coherent states
  • 4.6 Heisenberg-Langevin approach to quantum statistics
  • 4.7 Schrödinger approach to quantum statistics — master equation and generalized Fokker-Planck equation
  • 4.8 Generalized superposition of coherent fields and quantum noise
  • 5 Nonclassical optical phenomena and their relations
  • 5.1 Quadrature squeezing — squeezing of vacuum fluctuations
  • 5.2 Antibunching of photons
  • 5.3 Photon-number squeezing — sub-Poissonian photon statistics
  • 5.4 Oscillations in photon distributions
  • 5.5 Quantum phase
  • 5.6 Indirect measurements of quasidistributions
  • 5.7 Relations of quantum features of light
  • 5.8 Interaction of a single atom with light — cavity quantum electrodynamics and cavity quantum optics
  • 6 Photon interferences and correlations
  • 6.1 Second-order interferences
  • 6.2 Fourth-order interferences — Hanbury Brown-Twiss correlations
  • 6.3 Higher-order phenomena
  • 6.4 Single photon interferences
  • 6.5 Wave-particle duality
  • 6.6 Methods involving frequency down conversion and feedbacks
  • 7 Quantum optical and Bell’s
  • 7.1 Inequalities of quantum optics and their interpretation
  • 7.2 Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen “paradox” and Bell’s inequalities
  • 8 Quantum optical experiments supporting quantum theory
  • 8.1 Single-photon interference experiments
  • 8.2 Polarization correlation experiments
  • 8.3 Experiments with feedbacks
  • 8.4 Experiments with squeezed light
  • 8.5 Experiments with sub-Poisson light
  • 8.6 Experiments with frequency down conversion
  • 9 Conclusions
  • References.

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