TY  - BOOK
AU  - �eSibali�c,Nikola
AU  - Adams,Charles S.
ED  - Institute of Physics (Great Britain),
TI  - An interactive guide to quantum optics
T2  - [IOP release $release]
SN  - 9780750326285
AV  - QC446.2 .S535 2023eb
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK)
PB  - IOP Publishing
KW  - Quantum optics
KW  - Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory)
KW  - bicssc
KW  - SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - "Version: 20240101"--Title page verso; Includes bibliographical references; 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; Also available in print
UR  - https://iopscience.iop.org/book/mono/978-0-7503-2628-5
ER  -