This textbook provides a physical understanding of what photons are and of their properties and applications. Special emphasis is made in the text to entangled photon pairs which exhibit quantum mechanical correlations over manifestly macroscopic distances. Such photon pairs make possible such exciting techniques as teleportation and quantum cryptography.
This textbook provides a physical understanding of what photons are and of their properties and applications. Special emphasis is made in the text to entangled photon pairs which exhibit quantum mechanical correlations over manifestly macroscopic distances. Such photon pairs make possible such exciting techniques as teleportation and quantum cryptography.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Harry Paul has over thirty years' experience in business, including management training and consulting, sales, distribution, product development, and international operations. He is the coauthor of six books, including Revved! (with Ross Reck) and the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Fish! John Britt is director of healthcare solutions at Kforce. He has been assisting large organizations' leadership and management with change for over twenty years. He is the coauthor, with Ken Blanchard, of Who Killed Change? Ed Jent has been a minister of education for the past twenty - six years and has served in Kentucky, Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction 2. Historical milestones 3. Basics of the classical description of light 4. Quantum mechanical understanding of light 5. Light detectors 6. Spontaneous emission 7. Interference 8. Photon statistics 9. Squeezed light 10. Measuring distribution functions 11. Optical Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen experiments 12. Quantum cryptography 13. Quantum teleportation 14. Summary: what do we know about the photon? Appendix: mathematical description References Index.