Introductory Quantum Optics

By C. Gerry, P. Knight. 2004

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This established textbook provides an accessible but comprehensive introduction to the quantum nature of light and its interaction with matter. The field of quantum optics is covered with clarity and depth, from the underlying theoretical framework of field quantization, atom–field interactions, and quantum coherence theory, to important and modern applications at the forefront of current research such as quantum interferometry, squeezed light, quantum entanglement, cavity quantum electrodynamics, laser-cooled trapped ions, and quantum information processing. The text is suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and would be an ideal main text for a course on quantum optics. This long-awaited second edition builds upon the success of the first edition, including many new developments in the field, particularly in the area of quantum state engineering. Additional homework problems have been added, and content from the first edition has been updated and clarified throughout.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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Two-mode squeezed states in cavity optomechanics via engineering of a single reservoir (2014, background): “is the two-mode squeezing operator with squeezing parameter r [35].”
Quantum-enhanced measurements without entanglement (2017, background): “be scaled. Typical instances in which the quantum-enhanced measurement paradigm has been studied are in fact interferometers based on ultracold atoms conned in optical lattices (Cronin et al., 2009; Gerry and Knight, 2005; Giorgini et al., 2008; Haroche and Raimond, 2006; Inguscio et al., 2006; Kohl”
Vector Potential Electromagnetics with Generalized Gauge for Inhomogeneous Media: Formulation (Invited Paper) (2014, background): “More importantly, when the electromagnetic effect needs to be incorporated in the Schrödinger equation, both vector and scalar potentials are used; this will be important in many quantum optics studies [5–11].”
Quantum information processing with superconducting circuits: a review (2016, background): “ x i˙ y)=2, one obtains H^ = 1 2 ˙ z+ g(˙+a+ ˙ a+) + g(˙+a+ + ˙ a) + h!(a+a)(4) In the rotating-wave approximation (RWA) one only keeps the rst term, which gives the canonical Jaynes-Cummings model [153,154], Hˇ 1 2 ˙ z+ g( ˙+ a+ +) + h!( a+ )(5) describing dipole coupling of a two-level "artic”
Nonlinear and quantum optics with whispering gallery resonators (2015, methodology): “anipulation of quantum states of light. The generation and processing of non-classical states such as single-photon states, squeezed states or entangled states requires eﬃcient nonlinear interactions [503, 504]. Both second- and third-order nonlinear processes have been used to generate non-classica”
Strong light-matter coupling in quantum chemistry and quantum photonics (2018, background): “Traditionally, the quantum nature of light has been the focus of the established field of quantum optics [1]; in recent years, however, other research disciplines, particularly the fields of excitonic and 2D materials science [2, 3] and quantum chemistry [4], have started to utilize the quantum natu”
Quantum squeezing of motion in a mechanical resonator (2015, background): “ has a wellbehaved P-representation – that is, it cannot be represented as an incoherent mixture of coherent states (36). For this reason, a quantum squeezed state is considered a non-classical state (37). It is a current goal to study the non-classical behavior in larger and larger systems, and rec”