Manipulating quantum structures using laser pulses

• Main Author: Shore, Bruce W.
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
• Subjects: Nuclear excitation.; Atomic structure.; Coherent states.; Perturbation (Quantum dynamics); Laser interferometry.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781139159234; 9780511675713; 9781139161282; 9781139154673; 9781139157469; 9780521763578; 9781283342377
• Physical Description: 1 online zdroj (xiii, 572 pages) : illustrations

Presents the theory of quantum-state manipulation and equations which can be applied to complicated multilevel quantum systems, for researchers.

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Atoms as structured particles
• 3. Radiation
• 4. The laser-atom interaction
• 5. Picturing quantum structure and changes
• 6. Incoherence: rate equations
• 7. Coherence: the Schrödinger equation
• 8. Two-state coherent excitation
• 9. Weak pulse: perturbation theory
• 10. The vector model
• 11. Sequential pulses
• 12. Degeneracy
• 13. Three states
• 14. Raman processes
• 15. Multilevel excitation
• 16. Averages and the statistical matrix (density matrix)
• 17. Preparing superpositions
• 18. Measuring superpositions
• 19. Overall phase, interferometry and cyclic dynamics
• 20. Atoms affecting fields
• 21. Atoms in cavities
• 22. Control and optimization.