TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shore,Bruce W.
TI  - Manipulating quantum structures using laser pulses
SN  - 9780511675713 (ebook)
AV  - QC794.6.E9 S56 2011
U1  - 539.7/56 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Nuclear excitation
KW  - Atomic structure
KW  - Coherent states
KW  - Perturbation (Quantum dynamics)
KW  - Laser interferometry
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511675713
ER  -