Quantum Phononics Introduction to Ultrafast Dynamics of Optical Phonons /

• Main Author: Nakamura, Kazutaka (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, 282
• Subjects: Quantum optics.; Lasers.; Photonics.; Microwaves.; Optical engineering.; Quantum computers.; Spintronics.; Nanotechnology.; Quantum Optics.; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.; Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering.; Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics.; Nanotechnology and Microengineering.

This book presents quantum phononics as an exciting new field of research, and introduces readers to the quantum nature of phonons and their application to quantum technologies. Both the theory of and recent experiments in "quantum phononics," involving e.g. coherent phonons, phonon squeez...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Phonons
• Classical description of lattice vibration
• Harmonic oscillator (creation and annihilation operators, coherent states, squeezed states)
• Quantum description of phonons
• Coherent phonons
• Generation mechanism of coherent phonons (Theory)
• Detection mechanism (Theory) (optical detection, diffraction detection)
• Experimental Examples (semimetals, semiconductors, super conductors, Topological insulators and other new functional materials)
• Phonon squeezing
• Squeezed state of phonons
• Two-phonon squeezing
• Coherent control of phonons
• Introduction to coherent control
• Theory of coherent control of phonons
• Single-mode control
• Multi-model control
• Phonon quantum technology
• Phonon quantum memory
• Entanglement of phonons
• Optomechanics
• Phonon assisted phenomena.