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100 1 _aPaul, Harry,
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240 1 0 _aPhotonen.
240 1 0 _lEnglish
245 1 0 _aIntroduction to quantum optics :
_bfrom light quanta to quantum teleportation /
_cHarry Paul ; translated from German by Igor Jex.
260 _aCambridge, UK ;
_aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2004.
300 _axii, 241 p. :
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_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 235-239) and index.
505 _t1. Introduction 2. Historical milestones 3. Basics of the classical description of light 4. Quantum mechanical understanding of light 5. Light detectors 6. Spontaneous emission 7. Interference 8. Photon statistics 9. Squeezed light 10. Measuring distribution functions 11. Optical Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen experiments 12. Quantum cryptography 13. Quantum teleportation 14. Summary: what do we know about the photon? Appendix: mathematical description References Index.
520 _aThis textbook provides a physical understanding of what photons are and of their properties and applications. Special emphasis is made in the text to entangled photon pairs which exhibit quantum mechanical correlations over manifestly macroscopic distances. Such photon pairs make possible such exciting techniques as teleportation and quantum cryptography, as well as the physical realisation of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen type experiments. In addition, nonclassical properties of light, such as photon antibunching and squeezing, as well as quantum phase measurement and optical tomography are discussed. The author describes relevant experiments and elucidates the physical ideas behind them. This book will be of interest to undergraduates and graduate students studying optics, and to any physicist with an interest in the mysteries of the photon and exciting modern work in quantum cryptography and teleportation.
650 0 _aPhotons.
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856 4 2 _3Publisher description
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