TY - BOOK AU - Gerry,Christopher C. AU - Knight,Peter L. TI - Introductory quantum optics SN - 9781009415293 AV - QC446.2 .G47 2024 U1 - 535/.15 23/eng/20231102 PY - 2024/// CY - Cambridge, United Kingdom PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Quantum optics N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Field quantization -- Coherent states -- Emission and absorption of radiation by atoms -- Quantum coherence functions -- Beam splitters and interferometers -- Nonclassical Light -- Dissipative interactions and decoherence -- Optical test of quantum mechanics -- Experiments in cavity QED and with trapped ions -- Applications of entanglement: Heisenberg-limited interferometry and quantum information processing -- The density operator, entangled states, the Schmidt decomposition, and the Von Neumann entropy -- Quantum measurement theory in a (very small) nutshell -- Derivation of the effective Hamiltonian for dispersive (far off-resonant) interactions -- Nonlinear optics and spontaneous parametric down-conversion; Christopher C. Gerry, Peter L. Knight; Introductory Quantum Optics N2 - "Quantum optics remains one of the liveliest fields in physics. While it has been a dominant research field for at least four decades, with much graduate activity, it has now impacted the undergraduate curriculum. This book developed from courses we have taught to final-year undergraduates and beginning graduate students at Imperial College London and City University of New York"-- ER -