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UNINA9910146063103321 |
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Dutra S. M (Sergio M.) |
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Cavity quantum electrodynamics [[electronic resource] ] : the strange theory of light in a box / / Sergio M. Dutra |
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New York, : J. Wiley, c2005 |
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1-280-27569-3 |
9786610275694 |
0-470-31825-2 |
0-471-71347-3 |
0-471-71346-5 |
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[1st edition] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (407 p.) |
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Collana |
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Wiley series in lasers and applications |
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Quantum optics |
Quantum electrodynamics |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-380) and index. |
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Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 1.1 What is light?; 1.1.1 Geometrical optics; 1.1.2 Wave optics; 1.1.3 Classical electrodynamics and relativity; 1.1.4 Quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics; 1.2 A brief history of cavity QED; 1.3 A map of the book; 1.4 How to read this book; 2 Fiat Lux!; 2.1 How to quantize a theory; 2.2 Why the radiation field is special; 2.3 What is a cavity?; 2.3.1 What is resonance?; 2.3.2 Confinement is the key; 2.4 Canonical quantization of the radiation field; 2.4.1 Quantization in a cavity |
2.4.2 Quantization in free space2.5 The Casimir force; 2.5.1 Zero-point potential energy; 2.5.2 Maxwell stress tensor; 2.5.3 The vacuum catastrophe; Recommended reading; Problems; 3 The photon's wavefunction; 3.1 Position in relativistic quantum mechanics; 3.2 Extreme quantum theory of light with a twist; 3.3 The configuration space problem; 3.4 Back to vector notation; 3.5 The limit of vanishing rest mass; 3.6 Second quantization; Recommended reading; Problems; 4 A box of photons; 4.1 The classical limit; 4.1.1 Coherent states; 4.1.2 The density matrix |
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4.1.3 The diagonal coherent-state representation4.2 Squeezed states; 4.2.1 The squeezing operator; 4.2.2 Generating squeezed states; 4.2.3 Geometrical picture; 4.2.4 Homodyne detection; Recommended reading; Problems; 5 Let matter be!; 5.1 A single point dipole; 5.2 An arbitrary charge distribution; 5.3 Matter-radiation coupling and gauge invariance; Recommended reading; 6 Spontaneous emission; 6.1 Emission in free space; 6.2 Emission in a cavity; Recommended reading; 7 Macroscopic QED; 7.1 The dielectric JCM; 7.2 Polariton-photon dressed excitations |
7.3 Quantum noise of matter and macroscopic averages7.4 How a macroscopic description is possible; 7.5 The Kramers-Kronig dispersion relation; 7.6 Including absorption in the dielectric JCM; 7.7 Dielectric permittivity; 7.8 Huttner-Barnett theory; 7.8.1 The matter Hamiltonian; 7.8.2 Diagonalization of the total Hamiltonian; Recommended reading; Problems; 8 The maser; the laser; and their cavity QED cousins; 8.1 The ASER idea; 8.2 How to add noise; 8.2.1 Einstein's approach to Brownian motion; 8.2.2 Langevin's approach to Brownian motion; 8.2.3 The modern form of Langevin's equation |
8.2.4 Ito's and Stratonovich's stochastic calculus8.3 Rate equations with noise; 8.4 Ideal laser light; 8.5 The single-atom maser; 8.6 The thresholdless laser; 8.7 The one-and-the-same atom laser; Recommended reading; Problems; 9 Open cavities; 9.1 The Gardiner-Collett Hamiltonian; 9.2 The radiation condition; 9.3 Natural modes; 9.4 Completeness in general; 9.4.1 Whittaker's scalar potentials; 9.4.2 General formulation of the problem; Recommended reading; Problems; Appendix A Perfect cavity modes; Appendix B Perfect cavity boundary conditions; Appendix C Quaternions and special relativity |
C.1 What are quaternions? |
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What happens to light when it is trapped in a box?Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics addresses a fascinating question in physics: what happens to light, and in particular to its interaction with matter, when it is trapped inside a box? With the aid of a model-building approach, readers discover the answer to this question and come to appreciate its important applications in computing, cryptography, quantum teleportation, and opto-electronics. Instead of taking a traditional approach that requires readers to first master a series of seemingly unconnected mathematical techniques, this book engag |
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UNINA9910797374503321 |
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Autore |
Omer-Sherman Ranen |
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Imagining the kibbutz : visions of utopia in literature and film / / Ranen Omer-Sherman |
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University Park, Pennsylvania : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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ISBN |
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0-271-07057-9 |
0-271-07061-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (342 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Dimyonot: Jews and cultural imagination ; ; 2 |
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Kibbutzim in literature |
Kibbutzim - History |
Israeli literature - History and criticism |
Kibbutzim in motion pictures |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-333) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 Trepidation and Exultation in Early Kibbutz Fiction -- 2 “With a Zealot’s Fervor” Individuals Facing the Fissures of Ideology in Oz, Shaham, and Balaban -- 3 The Kibbutz and Its Others at Midcentury Palestinian and Mizrahi Interlopers in Utopia -- 4 Late Disillusionments and Village Crimes Th e Kibbutz Mysteries of Batya Gur and Savyon Liebrecht -- 5 From the 1980's to 2010 Nostalgia and the Revisionist Lens in Kibbutz Film -- Afterword Between Hope and Despair Th e Legacy of the Kibbutz Dream in the Twenty-First Century -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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In Imagining the Kibbutz, Ranen Omer-Sherman explores the literary and cinematic representations of the socialist experiment that became history’s most successfully sustained communal enterprise. Inspired in part by the kibbutz movement’s recent commemoration of its centennial, this study responds to a significant gap in scholarship. Numerous sociological and economic studies have appeared, but no book-length study has ever addressed the tremendous range of |
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critically imaginative portrayals of the kibbutz. This diachronic study addresses novels, short fiction, memoirs, and cinematic portrayals of the kibbutz by both kibbutz “insiders” (including those born and raised there, as well as those who joined the kibbutz as immigrants or migrants from the city) and “outsiders.” For these artists, the kibbutz is a crucial microcosm for understanding Israeli values and identity. The central drama explored in their works is the monumental tension between the individual and the collective, between individual aspiration and ideological rigor, between self-sacrifice and self-fulfillment. Portraying kibbutz life honestly demands retaining at least two oppositional things in mind at once—the absolute necessity of euphoric dreaming and the mellowing inevitability of disillusionment. As such, these artists’ imaginative witnessing of the fraught relation between the collective and the citizen-soldier is the story of Israel itself. |
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