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Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Peter van Dongen
Event type:
Lecture/practice class
Displayed in timetable as:
08.128.175
Hours per week:
6
Credits:
6,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | -
Requirements / organisational issues:
bachelor of science
Contents:
(partly also dependent on the interests of the audience)
Introduction: occupation number representation, observables, quantum field theory
Quantum many-particle theory: bosonic and fermionic coherent states, path integrals, Feynman-diagrams, applications
Quantum theory of the radiation field: quantization, interaction of the quantized radiation field with matter
Quantum optics: photon statistics, photon antibunching, coherent states, squeezed light, atoms in optical resonators, quantum information
Methods and models of quantum optics: coherent interactions, operators and operator identities, basis states, quantum statistics, quasi-probability distributions, dissipative processes, master equations, dressed states
Recommended reading list:
F. Schwabl, Quantenmechanik für Fortgeschrittene, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1997.
J. J. Sakurai, Advanced Quantum Mechanics, Addison Wesley, Reading, 1967.
S. M. Barnett, P. M. Radmore, Methods in Theoretical Quantum Optics, Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, 2002.
M. Fox, Quantum Optics, Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, 2006.
M. A. Nielsen, I. L. Chuang, Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 2000.
M. Lewenstein, A. Sanpera, V. Ahufinger, Ultracold atoms in optical lattices, Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, 2012.
J. W. Negele, H. Orland, Quantum Many-particle Systems, Perseus Books, New York, 1994.
R. Loudon, The Quantum Theory of Light, Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, 2000.
Additional information:
A handout will be provided.
Further information will be provided from mid-October 2021 on
https://lms.uni-mainz.de
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