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040			_aNISER LIBRARY _beng _erda _cNISER LIBRARY
082			_a535.14 _bMIL-I
100	1		_aMilonni, Peter W.
245	1	0	_aIntroduction to quantum optics and quantum fluctuations
260			_aOxford, United Kingdom : _bOxford University Press, _c2023.
300			_axi, 530 pages : _billustrations ; _c26 cm.
490	0		_aOxford graduate texts
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 521-524) and index.
520			_aThis is an introduction to the quantum theory of light and its broad implications and applications. A significant part of the book covers material with direct relevance to current basic and applied research, such as quantum fluctuations and their role in laser physics and the theory of forces between macroscopic bodies (Casimir effects). The book includes numerous historical sidelights throughout, and approximately seventy exercises. The book provides detailed expositions of the theory with emphasis on general physical principles. Foundational topics in classical and quantum electrodynamics are addressed in the first half of the book, including the semiclassical theory of atom-field interactions, the quantization of the electromagnetic field in dispersive and dissipative media, uncertainty relations, and spontaneous emission. The second half begins with a chapter on the Jaynes-Cummings model, dressed states, and some distinctly quantum-mechanical features of atom-field interactions, and includes discussion of entanglement, the no-cloning theorem, von Neumann's proof concerning hidden variable theories, Bell's theorem, and tests of Bell inequalities. The last two chapters focus on quantum fluctuations and fluctuation-dissipation relations, beginning with Brownian motion, the Fokker-Planck equation, and classical and quantum Langevin equations. Detailed calculations are presented for the laser linewidth, spontaneous emission noise, photon statistics of linear amplifiers and attenuators, and other phenomena. Van der Waals interactions, Casimir forces, the Lifshitz theory of molecular forces between macroscopic media, and the many-body theory of such forces based on dyadic Green functions are analyzed from the perspective of Langevin noise, vacuum field fluctuations, and zero-point energy.
650		0	_aQuantum optics
650		0	_aFluctuations (Physics)
650		0	_aQuantum field theory
650		0	_aCasimir effect
650		0	_avan der Waals interaction
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