Embracing the enhanced features of an ebook the authors provide a primer on quantum optics for students and those wanting an introduction to the topic. Whereas standard texts employ complex mathematics and static images, the authors use interactivity to augment understanding via a visual hands-on experience. Forty interactive figures allow exploration of different themes, while multiple representations give a window on quantum dynamics both at microscopic and macroscopic level, connecting understanding across length scales. Historical introduction and examples from modern research set these concepts firmly into both original and contemporary research context. This is an ideal text for final year undergraduate quantum optics students, and new graduate students in AMO physics, and researchers in physics and electrical/optical engineering.
Key Features:
- Interactive figures throughout
- Visual, hands-on content
- Multiple representations giving a window on quantum dynamics both at microscopic and macroscopic level
Quote: An Interactive Guide to Quantum Optics is a valuable resource for readers with a solid grounding in quantum mechanics and optics, as well as some prior exposure to quantum optics.
Michael Belsley, Departamento de Física, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal 2025 Contemporary Physics Taylor & Francis Group
This compact guide to quantum optics stands out for its broad scope and innovative use of interactive figures to follow the evolution of quantum systems […] numerous physical insights make it an excellent tool for those seeking to transition from students to active contributors in the field of quantum optics.
Michael Belsley, Departamento de Física, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal 2025 Contemporary Physics, Taylor and Frances https://doi.org/10.1080/00107514.2025.2452494
Table of Content
Introduction
Discovery of quantum optics
What is Quantum in Quantum Optics?
Part I One quanta
One quanta
Measurements: projective and non-destructive
Fighting environmental noise and imperfections
Part II Two or more quantum
Two photons
Seeing entanglement: Counting and correlation
Strong interactions
Part III Outlook
Appendices
A. Bloch vector
B. Density matrix
C. Rotations
D. The Rabi solution
E. Quantum regression theorem and two-time correlation calculations
About the author
Nikola Šibalić studied physics at the University of Belgrade, Serbia and received a Ph D from Durham University, UK, before doing postdoctoral research in Denmark and France. Currently he dedicates his days working in the quantum computing industry as product manager and solution architect, and his nights to developing and maintaining an ever growing array of open-source tools for knowledge sharing and (re)use. He relaxes by practising classical mechanics in the form of swing dancing. Find out more at nikolasibalic.github.io.
C Stuart Adams studied physics at the University of Oxford and received a Ph D on laser physics from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK. He completed postdoctoral work in Germany and the United States before starting a research group at Durham University in 1995. He was awarded the Thomson medal in 2014 by the Institute of Physics (Io P) and the Holweck Prize in 2020 by the French Physical Society and Io P for pioneering work in atomic physics and quantum optics. He is co-author of the textbook Optics f2f. Find out more at etotheipiequals.github.io and opticsf2f.github.io/Opticsf2f_Code Book/ .
Together they co-authored previously Rydberg Physics, IOPP (2018)
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