Harry Paul

Introduction to Quantum Optics (eBook, PDF)

From Light Quanta to Quantum Teleportation

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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, as well as the physical realisation of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen type experiments. In addition, nonclassical properties of light, such as photon antibunching and squeezing, as well as quantum phase measurement and optical tomography are discussed. The author describes relevant experiments and elucidates the physical ideas behind them. This book will be of interest to undergraduates and graduate students studying optics, and to any physicist with an interest in the mysteries of the photon and exciting modern work in quantum cryptography and teleportation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511192593
• Artikelnr.: 38188594

Autorenporträt

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.