Quantum Optics
Schnabel/Ertmer; Tue 12:00 – 13:00, Wed 12:00 – 14:00, room F342 (1101);
Exercises Tue 13:00 – 14:00, room F342 (1101)
Contents
- quantization of the EM field
- nonclassical states of light
- interactions of light and atoms
- modern experiments in quantum optics
- photon statistics
- squeezed and entangled fields
- Bell’s inequality and nonlocality
- spontaneous emission
- Lamb shift
- Casimir effect
- dressed states
- Feynman graphs
Literature
- Mandel/Wolf, "Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics"
- Walls/Milburn, "Quantum Optics"
- Bachor/Ralph, "A Guide to experiments in Quantum Optics"
- Schleich, "Quantum Optics in Phase space"
