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Springer Fundamentals Of Quantum Optics And Quantum Information 2006 Edition by Peter Lambropoulos David Petrosyan
This book is an introduction to the two closely related subjects of quantum optics and quantum information. The book gives a simple self-contained introduction to both subjects while illustrating the physical principles of quantum information processing using quantum optical systems. To make the book accessible to those with backgrounds other than physics the authors also include a brief review of quantum mechanics. Furthermore some aspects of quantum information for example those pertaining to recent experiments on cavity QED and quantum dots are described here for the first time in book form. Table of contents : Quantum Optics.- Quantum Mechanical Background.- Quantum Theory of Radiation.- Atom in an External Radiation Field.- System-Reservoir Interaction.- Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics.- Field Propagation in Atomic Media.- Quantum Information.- Elements of Classical Computation.- Fundamentals of Quantum Information.- Principles of Quantum Computation.- Physical Implementations of Quantum Computation.