An Introduction to Quantum Optics and Quantum Fluctuations (Hardcover)

Peter W. Milonni

  • 出版商: Oxford University
  • 出版日期: 2019-03-25
  • 售價: $1,620
  • 貴賓價: 9.8$1,588
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 544
  • 裝訂: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 0199215618
  • ISBN-13: 9780199215614
  • 相關分類: 光學 Optics量子 Quantum
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This is an introduction to the quantum theory of light and its broad implications and applications. A significant part of the book covers material with direct relevance to current basic and applied research, such as quantum fluctuations and their role in laser physics and the theory of forces between macroscopic bodies (Casimir effects). The book includes numerous historical sidelights throughout, and approximately seventy exercises.

The book provides detailed expositions of the theory with emphasis on general physical principles. Foundational topics in classical and quantum electrodynamics are addressed in the first half of the book, including the semiclassical theory of atom-field interactions, the quantization of the electromagnetic field in dispersive and dissipative media, uncertainty relations, and spontaneous emission. The second half begins with a chapter on the Jaynes-Cummings model, dressed states, and some distinctly quantum-mechanical features of atom-field interactions, and includes discussion of entanglement, the no-cloning theorem, von Neumann's proof concerning hidden variable theories, Bell's theorem, and tests of Bell inequalities. The last two chapters focus on quantum fluctuations and fluctuation-dissipation relations, beginning with Brownian motion, the Fokker-Planck equation, and classical and quantum Langevin equations. Detailed calculations are presented for the laser linewidth, spontaneous emission noise, photon statistics of linear amplifiers and attenuators, and other phenomena. Van der Waals interactions, Casimir forces, the Lifshitz theory of molecular forces between macroscopic media, and the many-body theory of such forces based on dyadic Green functions are analyzed from the perspective of Langevin noise, vacuum field fluctuations, and zero-point energy.

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這本書是關於光量子理論及其廣泛的影響和應用的介紹。書中的一個重要部分涵蓋了與當前基礎和應用研究直接相關的材料,例如量子波動和其在激光物理學和宏觀體之間力的理論(卡西米爾效應)中的作用。書中還包含了許多歷史背景,並提供了大約七十個練習題。

該書詳細介紹了理論,強調一般物理原理。書的前半部分涵蓋了古典和量子電動力學的基礎主題,包括半經典的原子-場相互作用理論、電磁場在色散和耗散媒質中的量子化、不確定關係和自發輻射。後半部分以Jaynes-Cummings模型、裝飾態和原子-場相互作用的一些明顯的量子機械特性為開端,並討論了纏結、無法複製定理、馮·諾伊曼關於隱變量理論的證明、貝爾定理和貝爾不等式的測試。最後兩章聚焦於量子波動和波動-耗散關係,從布朗運動、福克-普朗克方程和經典和量子朗之萬方程開始。書中詳細計算了激光線寬、自發輻射噪聲、線性放大器和衰減器的光子統計以及其他現象。從朗之萬噪聲、真空場波動和零點能量的角度分析了范德瓦爾斯相互作用、卡西米爾力、利夫希茨理論以及基於雙矢量格林函數的這些力的多體理論。