Fox, Mark

Quantum optics : an introduction Mark Fox - South Asia Edition - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. - xvii, 378 pages : illustrations, 25 cm.

I. Introduction and background. Classical optics Quantum mechanics Radiative transitions in atoms.
II. Photons. Photon statistics Photon antibunching Coherent states and squeezed light Photon number states III. Atom-photon interactions. Resonant light-atom interactions Atoms in cavities Cold atoms IV. Quantum information processing Quantum cryptography Quantum computing Entangled states and quantum teleportation

Quantum optics: an introduction is a modern textbook written primarily for advanced undergraduate and masters level students in physics. In addition to standard topics, the text includes a broad range of topics in applied quantum optics such as laser cooling, Bose-Einstein condensation and quantum information processing.

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Quantum optics.

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