Introduction to quantum optics : from light quanta to quantum teleportation
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 excit...
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 0521835631 9780521835633 9780511648212 0511648219 0511194757 9780511194757 9780511193316 0511193319 9780511616754 0511616759 0511194013 9780511194016 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xii, 241 pages) : illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 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 Summarizing what we know about the photon; 15 Appendix. Mathematical description; References; Index.