Quantum Nature of Light From photon states to quantum fluids of light [#482092]

English | 2022 | ISBN: 978-0750327848 | 340 pages | True PDF EPUB | 42.64 MB
A quantum description of light is central to many aspects of the modern quantum technological revolution and key to our understanding and exploitation of photon-matter interactions, interpretation of entanglement, teleportation and quantum metrology. It underpins our comprehension of the quantum nature of information and how we can formulate, manipulate, and process it using physical systems operating on quantum mechanical principles, and a pathway to the building of quantum computing devices.
This book gives a broad perspective on quantum light phenomena. It goes beyond traditional quantum optics, to include quantum fluids of light and the complete electromagnetic vacuum. Important topics for students and researchers working in a large range of areas in the modern quantum technological revolution, from single photon processes to ultra-intense laser physics. This includes atom manipulation with photons, quantum computation, ultrafast lasers, Bose-Einstein condensation of photons, superfluid light, laboratory astrophysics, and the exploration of QED vacuum using ultra-intense lasers. It also includes the axion-photon coupling, which is relevant to the search for dark matter.