Responsible Instructor & Dates/Times
Prof. Dr. Tilmann Kuhn | Tel. 36312 | E-Mail |
Lecture
- Mo, 13-15, IG1 718
Contents & Literature
Contents of the lecture
- Electodynamics in the Coulomb gauge
- Quantization of the electromagnetic field
- vaccum fluctuations and zero-point energy
- Quantum states of light
- thermal states, coherent states, squeezed states
- Interaction of light with atoms
- Adsorption and emission of photons
- Jaynes-Cummings model
- coherence functions and photon statistics
Literature
- C.C. Gerry and P.L. Knight, Introductory Quantum Optics, Cambridge University Press, 2005
- R. Loudon, The Quantum Theory of Light, Oxford University Press, 1973
- C. Cohen-Tannoudji, J. Dupont-Roc and G. Grynberg, Photons and Atoms - Introduction to Quantum Electrodynamics, John Wiley & Sons, 1989
- V. Vedral, Modern Foundations of Quantum Optics, Imperial College, 2005
Script
Theoretical Quantum Optics | Winter term 2016/17 | PDF |