Bruce W. Shore

Manipulating Quantum Structures Using Laser Pulses

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presenting the underlying theory of quantum-state manipulation, this book is ideal for researchers and graduate students. It provides the equations, and approaches for their solution, which can be applied to complicated multilevel quantum systems. It shows how quantum changes can be displayed graphically to demonstrate how they can be controlled.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 588
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1290g
• ISBN-13: 9780521763578
• ISBN-10: 0521763576
• Artikelnr.: 33612574

Autorenporträt

Bruce W. Shore worked as a theoretical physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for 30 years. His research dealt with numerical analysis and atomic physics, specialising in the theory of laser-induced atomic-vapour excitation.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Atoms as structured particles
3. Radiation
4. The laser-atom interaction
5. Picturing quantum structure and changes
6. Incoherence: rate equations
7. Coherence: the Schrödinger equation
8. Two-state coherent excitation
9. Weak pulse: perturbation theory
10. The vector model
11. Sequential pulses
12. Degeneracy
13. Three states
14. Raman processes
15. Multilevel excitation
16. Averages and the statistical matrix (density matrix)
17. Preparing superpositions
18. Measuring superpositions
19. Overall phase, interferometry and cyclic dynamics
20. Atoms affecting fields
21. Atoms in cavities
22. Control and optimization
Appendices
References
Index.