(Ebook) Quantum Optics, Third, revised and extended edition by Prof. Dr. Werner Vogel, Prof. Dr. Dirk?Gunnar Welsch(auth.) ISBN 9783527405077, 9783527608522, 3527405070, 3527608524

(Ebook) Quantum Optics, Third, revised and extended edition by Prof. Dr. Werner Vogel, Prof. Dr. Dirk?Gunnar Welsch(auth.) ISBN 9783527405077, 9783527608522, 3527405070, 3527608524

This is the third, revised and extended edition of the acknowledged "Lectures on Quantum Optics" by W. Vogel and D.-G. Welsch. It offers theoretical concepts of quantum optics, with special emphasis on current research trends. A unified concept of measurement-based nonclassicality and entanglement criteria and a unified approach to medium-assisted electromagnetic vacuum effects including Van der Waals and Casimir Forces are the main new topics that are included in the revised edition. The rigorous development of quantum optics in the context of quantum field theory and the attention to details makes the book valuable to graduate students as well as to researchers.Content: Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 1–13): Chapter 2 Elements of quantum electrodynamics (pages 15–72): Chapter 3 Quantum states of bosonic systems (pages 73–112): Chapter 4 Bosonic systems in phase space (pages 113–134): Chapter 5 Quantum Theory of Damping (pages 135–172): Chapter 6 Photoelectric Detection of Light (pages 173–235): Chapter 7 Quantum?State Reconstruction (pages 237–264): Chapter 8 Nonclassicality and Entanglement of Bosonic Systems (pages 265–298): Chapter 9 Leaky Optical Cavities (pages 299–336): Chapter 10 Medium?Assisted Electromagnetic Vacuum Effects (pages 337–366): Chapter 11 Resonance Fluorescence (pages 367–406): Chapter 12 A Single Atom in a High?Q Cavity (pages 407–441): Chapter 13 Laser?Driven Quantized Motion of a Trapped Atom (pages 443–480):