Introduction to Quantum Optics: From Light Quanta to Quantum Teleportation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521835633)

The purpose of this book is to provide a physical understanding of photons and their properties and applications. Special emphasis is given in the text to photon pairs produced in spontaneous parametric, down-conversion, which exhibit intrinsically quantum mechanical correlations, known as entanglement, and which extend over manifestly macroscopic distances. Such photon pairs are well suited to the physical realization of Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky type experiments, and also make possible such exciting techniques as quantum cryptography and teleportation.

Author: Harry Paul
ISBN-10: 0521835631
ISBN-13: 9780521835633
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/14/2004
Pages: 254
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.47lbs
Size: 9.92h x 7.02w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2005 pg. 1060
Scitech Book News 12/01/2004 pg. 52