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This book provides an overview of quantum light phenomena and extends the traditional Quantum Optics, to include quantum fluids of light and the complete electromagnetic vacuum.
The first part of the book includes basic electromagnetic field quantisation, the characterisation of quantum photon states and elementary photon-atom interactions. Secondly, quantum fluids of light are explored such as recent areas as Bose-Einstein condensation, light vortices and superfluid light. Finally, the last section of the book focusses on a more complete description of quantum vacuum, which includes electron-positron states. The book is intended to make the bridge between these three somewhat distinct aspects of the quantum states of light.
The main audiences for the book include researchers and advanced students in quantum technology including quantum optics, metrology and computing.
Key Features:
- Up to date review of the field, including quantum fluids of light
- Extensive coverage of the topic
- Key and central theme for modern quantum science and technology
- Written by a respected expert in the field
“An internationally renowned scientist with a wide knowledge”- Iacopo Carusotto, Universita' di Trento, Italy.
"The main strength of the book is that it includes a deep discussion of the quantum fluids of light, a very new and hot topic which is mostly treated in research articles and review articles." - Alberto Bramati, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Sorbonne Université, France
"The proposed book’s content is comprehensive, and should be helpful for young researchers to start in relevant area, and to understand the fundamentals of quantum states of light ... The key strengths of this book include the fundamental of quantum states of light and wide relevance in quantum scientific areas. ... - Yunhong Ding, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Professor José Tito Mendonça is the scientific coordinator of the Laboratory for Quantum Plasmas (LQP) of the Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear (IPFN), and a retired Full Professor of the Physics Department of the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST). As a former Head of the Physics Department of IST and a former Director of the Association Euratom-IST for Fusion Research he developed pioneering work on photon acceleration, neutrino-MHD and twisted waves in plasmas.
1 Introduction
PART I BASIC PHOTON STATES
2 Field Quantization
3 Coherence
4 Photon-atom interactions
5 Boundary Effects
PART II QUANTUM FLUIDS OF LIGHT
6 Laser
7 Bose-Einstein Condensates
8 Collective Atomic Emission
9 Light vortices
10 Superfluid Light
PART III QUANTUM VACUUM
11 Basic QED Concepts
12 Particle-Pair Creation
13 Nonlinear Vacuum
14 The Axions
A Elementary Quantum
B Lagrangians
C Photon Kinetic Equation
D Curved Spacetime