An �eSibali�c, Nikola creator author. Adams, Charles S. (Physicist) author. Institute of Physics (Great Britain) publisher. text bibliography enk 2023 monographic eng access 1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color). 1. Introduction -- 2. Discovery of quantum optics -- 2.1. Optics timeline : from corpuscles and waves to photons -- 2.2. Classical, semi-classical or quantum? -- 2.3. From radio frequency electromagnetic fields controlling quantum systems to quantum optics and back 3. What is quantum in quantum optics? -- 3.1. Einstein's introduction of the photon concept -- 3.2. New types of dynamics brought by quantum theory -- 3.3. When are phenomena or technology quantum? -- 3.4. Single quanta, optics and biological systems part I. One quanta. 4. One quanta -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. What is a photon? -- 4.3. Photon properties -- 4.4. Photons as qubits -- 4.5. Photon polarization -- 4.6. The Bloch and Poincar�e sphere -- 4.7. Photon polarization : linear basis -- 4.8. Density matrix -- 4.9. A photon beam splitter -- 4.10. Rotations -- 4.11. Waveguide beam splitter -- 4.12. Photon creation : a single-photon emitter -- 4.13. Mathematical description of light-matter interactions -- 4.14. Two-level system driven by a near-resonant field -- 4.15. Decay and decoherence -- 4.16. Detecting single photons : homodyne detection 5. Measurements : projective and non-destructive -- 5.1. Bang, and what happens next : quantum jumps and quantum regression theorem -- 5.2. Effects of jumps -- 5.3. Effects of information leakage : new coherent dynamics -- 5.4. On phase in quantum physics 6. Fighting environmental noise and imperfections -- 6.1. Ramsey sequence -- 6.2. Dynamical decoupling (bang-bang control) -- 6.3. Spin-echo -- 6.4. Switching external perturbation : Dicke narrowing -- 6.5. Non-Markov environments : coupling initially independent field modes part II. Two or more quanta. 7. Two photons -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Two-photon interference -- 7.3. Hong-Ou-Mandel effect : Fock basis -- 7.4. Bell states -- 7.5. Polarization-entangled photons -- 7.6. Bell's inequality -- 7.7. Two-qubit visualization : rotations -- 7.8. Linear optics quantum computing -- 7.9. Hong-Ou-Mandel effect : non-symmetric network -- 7.10. Controlled-NOT gate 8. Seeing entanglement : counting and correlation -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Quantum erasure -- 8.3. Photon experiments -- 8.4. A quantum circuit model 9. Strong interactions -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. Jaynes-Cummings model part III. Outlook. 10. Outlook -- 10.1. Semiotics -- 10.2. Finding and connecting insights -- 10.3. Sharing in accessible and reusable form -- 10.4. Science versus decision making. Quantum optics; quantum state; quantum interference; phase coherence; dephasing' Bose-Einstein condensates; polarons; excitons. specialized Nikola �eSibali�c, C. Stuart Adam. "Version: 20240101"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader. Nikola �eSibali�c studied physics at the University of Belgrade, Serbia and received a PhD from Durham University, UK, before doing postdoctoral research in Denmark and France. Currently he dedicates his days working in the quantum computing industry as product manager and solution architect, and his nights to developing and maintaining an ever growing array of open-source tools for knowledge sharing and (re)use. He relaxes by practising classical mechanics in the form of swing dancing. Find out more at nikolasibalic.github.io. C. Stuart Adams studied physics at the University of Oxford and received a PhD on laser physics from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK. He completed postdoctoral work in Germany and the United States before starting a research group at Durham University in 1995. He was awarded the Thomson medal in 2014 by the Institute of Physics (IoP) and the Holweck Prize in 2020 by the French Physical Society and IoP for pioneering work in atomic physics and quantum optics. He is co-author of the textbook Optics f2f. Find out more at etotheipiequals.github.io and opticsf2f.github.io/Opticsf2f_CodeBook/. Together they co-authored previously Rydberg Physics, IOPP (2018) https://doi.org/10.1088/978-0-7503-1635-4. Quantum optics Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory) SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory QC446.2 .S535 2023eb Release 23 2023 collection 9780750326285 9780750326278 https://iopscience.iop.org/book/mono/978-0-7503-2628-5 https://iopscience.iop.org/book/mono/978-0-7503-2628-5 CaBNVSL 240201 20251030124212.0 9780750326285 eng