Quantum States of Light

• Main Author: Furusawa, Akira (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Mathematical Physics, 10
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Quantum computers.; Mathematical physics.; Quantum optics.; Spintronics.; Mathematical Physics.; Quantum Optics.; Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics.; Quantum Computing.

This book explains what quantum states of light look like. Of special interest, a single photon state is explained by using a wave picture, showing that it corresponds to the complementarity of a quantum. Also explained is how light waves are created by photons, again corresponding to the complement...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Quantum states of light
• 1-1 Quantum optics
• 1-2 Coherent states
• 1-3 Balanced homodyne measurements
• 1-4 Single-photon state
• 1-5 Fock states
• 1-6 Super position of a vacuum and a single photon
• 1-7 Coherent states and Schrodinger's cat states
• 1-8 Wigner function
• 1-9 Super position of a vacuum and a two-photon state
• 1-10 Squeezed states
• 1-11 Squeezing operation
• 1-12 Quantum entanglement
• 2. Generation of quantum states of light
• 2-1 Generation of coherent states
• 2-2 Generation of squeezed states
• 2-3 Generation of a single-photon state
• 2-4 Generation of Schrodinger's cat states
• 2-5 Generation of superposition of Fock states
• 2-6 Generation of quantum entanglement
• 3. Quantum operations for quantum states of light
• 3-1 Various quantum operations
• 3-2 Quantum teleportation
• 3-3 Quantum gate teleportation.