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The quantum nature of light : from photon states to quantum fluids of light
Title
The quantum nature of light : from photon states to quantum fluids of light / J.T. Mendonça.
ISBN
9780750327862
9780750327855
9780750327848
9780750327879
Publication
Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2022]
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (some color).
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
"Version: 20220901"--Title page verso.
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Biographical / Historical Note
Professor José Tito Mendonça is the scientific coordinator of the Laboratory for Quantum Plasmas (LQP) of the Instituto de Plasmas e Fusäao Nuclear (IPFN), and a retired Full Professor of the Physics Department of the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST). As a former Head of the Physics Department of IST and a former Director of the Association Euratom-IST for Fusion Research he developed pioneering work on photon acceleration, neutrino-MHD and twisted waves in plasmas.
Summary
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 states and elementary photon-atom interactions. Secondly, quantum fluids of light are explored such as recent areas as Bose-Einstein condensation, light vortices and superfluid light. Finally, the last section of the book focusses on a more complete description of quantum vacuum, which includes electron-positron states. The book is intended to make the bridge between these three somewhat distinct aspects of the quantum states of light. The main audiences for the book include researchers and advanced students in quantum technology including quantum optics, metrology and computing. Part of IOP Series in Quantum Technology.
Variant and related titles
From photon states to quantum fluids of light.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 21, 2022
Series
[IOP release $release]
IOP series in quantum technology
IOP ebooks. [2022 collection]
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Audience
Researchers in quantum technology including quantum optics, metrology and computing.
Contents
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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