目錄
Preface
1 Quantum theory of radiation
1.1 Quantization of the free electromagnetic field
1.1.1 Mode expansion of the field
1.1.2 Quantization
1.1.3 Commutation relations between electric and magnetic field components
1.2 Fock or number states
1.3 Lamb shift
1.4 Quantum beats
1.5 What is light?-The photon concept
1.5.1 Vacuum fluctuations and the photon concept
1.5.2 Vacuum fluctuations
1.5.3 Quantum beats, the quantum eraser, Bell's theorem, and more
1.5.4 『Wave function for photons'
1.A Equivalence between a many-particle Bose gas and a set of quantized harmonic oscillators
Problems
References and bibliography
2 Coherent and squeezed states of the radiation field
2.1 Radiation from a classical current
2.2 The coherent state as an eigenstate of the annihilation operator and as a displaced harmonic oscillator state
2.3 What is so coherent about coherent states?
2.4 Some properties of coherent states
2.5 Squeezed state physics
2.6 Squeezed states and the uncertainty relation
2.7 The squeeze operator and the squezed coherent states
2.7.1 Quadrature variance
2.8 Multi-mode squeezing
Problems
References and bibliography
3 Quantum distribution theory and partially coherent radiation
3.1 Coherent state representation
3.1.1 Definition of the coherent state representation
3.1.2 Examples of the coherent state representation
3.2 Q-representation
3.3 The Wigner-Weyl distribution
3.4 Generalized representation of the density operator and connection between the P-,Q-,and W-distributions
3.5 Q-representation for a squeezed coherent state
3.A Verifying equations (3.1.12a,3.1.12b)
3.B c-number function correspondence for the Wigner-Weyl distribution
Problems
References and bibliography
4 Field-field and photon-photon interferometry
4.1 The interferometer as a cosmic probe
4.1.1 Michelson interferometer and general relativity
4.1.2 The Sagnac ring interferometer
4.1.3 Proposed ring laser test of metric gravitation theories
4.1.4 The Michelson stellar interferometer
4.1.5 Hanbury-Brown-Twiss interferometer
4.2 Photon detection and quantum coherence functions
4.3 First-order coherence and Young-type double-source experiments
4.3.1 Young's double-slit experiment
4.3.2 Young's experiment with light from two atoms
4.4 Second-order coherence
4.4.1 The physics behind the Hanbury-Brown-Twiss effect
4.4.2 Detection and measurement of squeezed states via homodyne detection
4.4.3 Interference of two photons
4.4.4 Photon antibunching, Poissonian, and sub-Poissonian light
4.5 Photon counting and photon statistics
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5 Atom-field interaction-semiclassical theory
6 Atom-field interaction-quantum theory
7 Lasing without inversion and other effects of atomic coherence and interference
8 Quantum theory of damping -density operator and wave function approach
9 Quantum theory of damping-Heisenberg-Langevin approach
10 Resonance fluorescence
11 Quantum theory of the laser-density operator approach
12 Quantum theory of the laser-Heisenberg-Langevin approach
13 Theory of the micromaser
14 Correlated emission laser: concept, theory, and analysis
15 Phase sensitivity in quantum optical systems: applications
16 Squeezing via nonlinear optical processes
17 Atom optics
18 The EPR paradox, hidden variables, and Bell's theorem
19 Quantum nondemolition measurements
20 Quantum optical tests of complementarity
21 Two-photon interferometry, the quantum measurement problem, and more
Index
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