PHY 5389 Quantum Theory of Light
3 units
Physics
Faculty of Science
Quantum cryptography; entanglement; density operators; Bell's inequalities; quantization of the light field; Lam shift; Casimir effect; the vacuum; quantum optical states; Photon and homodyne detectors; quasi-probability functions; beam-splitters and other optical transformations; classical and quantum coherence; Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect, Hong-Ou-Mandel interference; quantum nonnlinear optics; quantum light-matter interactions; open quantum systems. This course is equivalent to PHYJ 5389 at Carleton University.
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Lecture
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Winter
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