Light-Matter Interactions and Quantum Optics

Download or read book Light-Matter Interactions and Quantum Optics written by Jonathan Keeling and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regarding the positive aims of this course, they are: to discuss how tomodel the quantum behaviour of coupled light and matter; to introducesome simple models that can be used to describe such systems; to dis-cuss methods for open quantum systems that arise naturally in the contextof coupled light and matter; and to discuss some of the more interestingphenomena which may arise for matter coupled to light. Semiclassical be-haviour will be discussed in some sections, both because an understandingof semiclassical behaviour (i.e. classical radiation coupled to quantum me-chanical matter) is useful to motivate what phenomena might be expected;and also as comparison to the semiclassical case is important to see whatnew physics arises from quantised radiation.