Introduction to Quantum Optics: From Light Quanta to Quantum Teleportation

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	Introduction to Quantum Optics: From Light Quanta to Quantum Teleportation Harry Paul Cambridge University Press, 2004 - 254 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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The purpose of this book is to provide a physical understanding of photons and their properties and applications. Special emphasis is given in the text to photon pairs produced in spontaneous parametric, down-conversion, which exhibit intrinsically quantum mechanical correlations, known as entanglement, and which extend over manifestly macroscopic distances. Such photon pairs are well suited to the physical realization of Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky type experiments, and also make possible such exciting techniques as quantum cryptography and teleportation.

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A number of advanced texts on quantum optics have been published in recent years, such as Scully and Zubairy, Walls and Milburn, Mandel and Wolf, and Loudon, to name a few. These texts do a thorough and rigorous job in establishing the foundation and formalism of quantum optics and relating them to topical problems in research.

In my opinion, Harry Paul's monograph should accompany every single one of these texts. In this mostly descriptive treatment of the subject, Professor Paul has carefully and perceptively composed a clear and coherent exposition of the physical foundations of quantum optical phenomena, provided careful descriptions and insightful clarifications of the "paradoxes" that often yet surreptitiously befuddle the student, and, by reference to fundamental experimental techniques, bestowed real physical meaning to the standard analytic tools on which the current formalism is based. The English translation is both colloquially and technically excellent, and the pace of the exposition is at once leisurely and concise. In my opinion, Professor Paul deserves tremendous credit for recognizing the need for a text of this nature, and for so capably filling a niche in the current literature of the field.

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