Single-photon Devices and Applications (Paperback)

Over the past ten years, on-demand single photon generation has been realized in numerous physical systems including neutral atoms, ions, molecules, semiconductor quantum dots, impurities and defects in solids, and superconductor circuits. The motivations for generation and detection of single photons are two-fold: basic and applied science. On the one hand, a single photon plays a central role in the experimental foundation of quantum mechanics and measurement theory. On the other hand, an efficient and high-quality single-photon source is needed to implement quantum key distribution, quantum repeaters and photonic quantum information processing.

Written by top authors from academia and industry, this is the only textbook focused on single-photon devices and thus fills the gap for a readily accessible update on the rapid progress in the field.

在過去的十年中，已經在許多物理系統中實現了按需單光子生成，包括中性原子、離子、分子、半導體量子點、固體中的雜質和缺陷以及超導電路。生成和檢測單光子的動機有兩個方面：基礎科學和應用科學。一方面，單光子在量子力學和測量理論的實驗基礎中起著核心作用。另一方面，需要高效和高質量的單光子源來實現量子密鑰分發、量子中繼器和光子量子信息處理。

本書由學術界和工業界的頂尖作者撰寫，是唯一一本專注於單光子器件的教科書，填補了這一領域快速進展的即時更新的空白。