Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Semi-classical description of matterlight interaction
- Part II Quantum description of light and its interaction with matter
- 4 Quantization of free radiation
- Complement 4A: Example of the classical Hamiltonian formalism: charged particle in an electromagnetic field
- Complement 4B: Momentum and angular momentum of radiation
- Complement 4C: Photons in modes other than travelling plane waves
- 5 Free quantum radiation
- Complement 5A: Squeezed states of light: the reduction of quantum fluctuations
- Complement 5B: One-photon wave packet
- Complement 5C: Polarization-entangled photons and violation of Bell's inequalities
- Complement 5D: Entangled two-mode states
- Complement 5E: Quantum information
- 6 Interaction of an atom with the quantized electromagnetic field
- Complement 6A: Hamiltonian formalism for interacting fields and charges
- Complement 6B: Cavity quantum electrodynamics
- Complement 6C: Polarization-entangled photon pairs emitted in an atomic radiative cascade
- Part III Applying both approaches
- Index
Complement 4B: Momentum and angular momentum of radiation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Semi-classical description of matterlight interaction
- Part II Quantum description of light and its interaction with matter
- 4 Quantization of free radiation
- Complement 4A: Example of the classical Hamiltonian formalism: charged particle in an electromagnetic field
- Complement 4B: Momentum and angular momentum of radiation
- Complement 4C: Photons in modes other than travelling plane waves
- 5 Free quantum radiation
- Complement 5A: Squeezed states of light: the reduction of quantum fluctuations
- Complement 5B: One-photon wave packet
- Complement 5C: Polarization-entangled photons and violation of Bell's inequalities
- Complement 5D: Entangled two-mode states
- Complement 5E: Quantum information
- 6 Interaction of an atom with the quantized electromagnetic field
- Complement 6A: Hamiltonian formalism for interacting fields and charges
- Complement 6B: Cavity quantum electrodynamics
- Complement 6C: Polarization-entangled photon pairs emitted in an atomic radiative cascade
- Part III Applying both approaches
- Index
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- Introduction to Quantum OpticsFrom the Semi-classical Approach to Quantized Light, pp. 327 - 333Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010