Quantum Interferometry in Phase Space: Theory and Applications - Hardcover

Suda, Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3540260706 ISBN 13: 9783540260707

Publisher: Springer, 2005

Synopsis

"Quantum Interferometry in Phase Space" is primarily concerned with quantum-mechanical distribution functions and their applications in quantum optics and neutron interferometry. In the first part of the book, the author describes the phase-space representation of quantum optical phenomena such as coherent and squeezed states. Applications to interferometry, e.g. in beam splitters and fiber networks, are also presented. In the second part of the book, the theoretical formalism is applied to neutron interferometry, including the dynamical theory of diffraction, coherence properties of superposed beams, and dephasing effects.

About this title

About the Author

1974 PHD at the Technical University (TU) of Vienna

Employee at the Austrian Research Center Seibersdorf (ARCS), Austria

1996 Habilitation at the TU Vienna (computerized simulation)

Since 2004 Principal Scientist at ARCS

From the Back Cover

Quantum Interferometry in Phase Space is primarily concerned with quantum-mechanical distribution functions and their applications in quantum optics and neutron interferometry. In the first part of the book, the author describes the phase-space representation of quantum optical phenomena such as coherent and squeezed states. Applications to interferometry, e.g. in beam splitters and fiber networks, are also presented. In the second part of the book, the theoretical formalism is applied to neutron interferometry, including the dynamical theory of diffraction, coherence properties of superposed beams, and dephasing effects.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540260706
• ISBN 13: 9783540260707
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 196