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Record Nr.

UNINA9911006560403321

Autore

Shore Bruce W.

Titolo

Manipulating quantum structures using laser pulses / / Bruce W. Shore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-107-22477-2

1-283-34237-5

1-139-16028-1

9786613342379

1-139-15467-2

1-139-16128-8

1-139-15571-7

1-139-15923-2

1-139-15746-9

0-511-67571-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 572 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

SCI053000

Disciplina

539.7/56

Soggetti

Nuclear excitation

Atomic structure

Coherent states

Perturbation (Quantum dynamics)

Laser interferometry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Atoms as structured particles -- 3. Radiation -- 4. The laser-atom interaction -- 5. Picturing quantum structure and changes -- 6. Incoherence: rate equations -- 7. Coherence: the Schrödinger equation -- 8. Two-state coherent excitation -- 9. Weak pulse: perturbation theory -- 10. The vector model -- 11. Sequential pulses -- 12. Degeneracy -- 13. Three states -- 14. Raman processes -- 15. Multilevel excitation -- 16. Averages and the statistical matrix (density matrix) -- 17. Preparing superpositions -- 18. Measuring superpositions -- 19. Overall phase, interferometry and cyclic dynamics -- 20. Atoms affecting fields -- 21. Atoms in cavities -- 22.



Control and optimization.

Sommario/riassunto

The use of laser pulses to alter the internal quantum structure of individual atoms and molecules has applications in quantum information processing, the coherent control of chemical reactions and in quantum-state engineering. This book presents the underlying theory of such quantum-state manipulation for researchers and graduate students. The book provides the equations, and approaches for their solution, which can be applied to complicated multilevel quantum systems. It also gives the background theory for application to isolated atoms or trapped ions, simple molecules and atoms embedded in solids. Particular attention is given to the ways in which quantum changes can be displayed graphically to help readers understand how quantum changes can be controlled.