The quantum nature of light : from photon states to quantum fluids of light /: from photon states to quantum fluids of light. ([2022])

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: From photon states to quantum fluids of light
• Further Information: Note: J.T. Mendonça.
• Authors: Mendonça, J. T (José Tito)
• Other Names: Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource (various pagings), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 535/.15; Quantum optics; Light; Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory); Quantum science; Light; Quantum optics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780750327862; 0750327863; 9780750327855; 0750327855
• Related ISBNs: 9780750327848; 9780750327879
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Title from PDF title page (viewed on October 5, 2022).
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