The quantum nature of light : from photon states to quantum fluids of light /

This book provides an overview of quantum light phenomena and extends the traditional Quantum Optics, to include quantum fluids of light and the complete electromagnetic vacuum. The first part of the book includes basic electromagnetic field quantisation, the characterisation of quantum photon state...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mendonça, J. T. (José Tito) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2022]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 22.
IOP series in quantum technology.
IOP ebooks. 2022 collection.
Temas:
Quantum optics.
Light.
Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory)
Quantum science.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Motivation
  • 1.2. Photons, waves and fields
  • 1.3. A necessary note
  • part I. Basic photon states. 2. Field quantisation
  • 2.1. Quantum mechanical background
  • 2.2. Harmonic oscillator
  • 2.3. Electromagnetic field quantisation
  • 2.4. Canonical quantisation
  • 2.5. Photon wavefunction
  • 2.6. Quantisation in a medium
  • 3. Coherence
  • 3.1. Coherent states
  • 3.2. Field representations
  • 3.3. Squeezed states
  • 3.4. Correlations
  • 3.5. Photon entanglement
  • 4. Photon-atom interactions
  • 4.1. Hamiltonians
  • 4.2. Quantum Rabi model
  • 4.3. Three-level atom
  • 4.4. Spontaneous emission
  • 4.5. Reduced density method
  • 4.6. Resonant scattering
  • 5. Boundary effects
  • 5.1. Cavity losses
  • 5.2. Atom in a cavity
  • 5.3. Beam splitters
  • 5.4. Time refraction
  • 5.5. Temporal beam splitters
  • 5.6. Time-crystals
  • 5.7. Casimir force
  • 5.8. Space-time symmetries
  • 5.9. Curved space-time
  • part II. Quantum fluids of light. 6. Laser
  • 6.1. Balance equations
  • 6.2. Laser cavity
  • 6.3. Phenomenological laser model
  • 6.4. Relaxation oscillations
  • 6.5. Short laser pulses
  • 6.6. Amplified spontaneous emission
  • 6.7. Susceptibility
  • 6.8. Semi-classical laser theory
  • 6.9. Quantum laser theory
  • 7. Bose-Einstein condensates
  • 7.1. Basic concepts
  • 7.2. Photon condensation
  • 7.3. Condensation in plasma
  • 7.4. Polariton condensation
  • 7.5. BEC-laser transition
  • 7.6. Photon kinetics
  • 8. Collective atomic emission
  • 8.1. Superradiance
  • 8.2. Collective recoil emission
  • 8.3. Quantum recoil
  • 8.4. Cyclotron superradiance
  • 9. Light vortices
  • 9.1. Photon OAM
  • 9.2. Light springs and fractional vorticity
  • 9.3. POAM in optical media
  • 9.4. Quantum optics with OAM
  • 10. Superfluid light
  • 10.1. Fluid equations of light
  • 10.2. Superfluid turbulence
  • 10.3. A tale of two fluids
  • 10.4. Superfluid currents
  • part III. Quantum vacuum. 11. Basic QED concepts
  • 11.1. Klein-Gordon equation
  • 11.2. Dirac equation
  • 11.3. Volkov states
  • 11.4. Quantisation of the Dirac field
  • 11.5. Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangian
  • 12. Particle pair creation
  • 12.1. Klein paradox
  • 12.2. Temporal Klein model
  • 12.3. Time-varying fields
  • 12.4. Nonlinear trident process
  • 13. Nonlinear vacuum
  • 13.1. Vacuum birefringence
  • 13.2. Photon acceleration
  • 13.3. Photon-photon scattering
  • 13.4. Vacuum undulator
  • 13.5. Superradiant vacuum
  • 14. The axions
  • 14.1. Axion-photon coupling
  • 14.2. Axion polariton
  • 14.3. Axion beam instability
  • 14.4. Axion wakes
  • 14.5. Shinning through wall
  • Appendix A. Elementary quantum
  • Appendix B. Lagrangians
  • Appendix C. Photon kinetic equation
  • Appendix D. Curved spacetime.

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