Elements of Quantum Optics
Elements of Quantum Optics
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DOI：
10.1080/09500349114551341
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发表时间：
1991-06
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
S. Phoenix
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作者：
S. Phoenix
尽管该领域发展迅速，日益成熟，但可供量子光学研究人员和学生使用的好教材相对较少。这本书元素的量子光学皮埃尔梅斯特和默里萨金特三，两个领先的专家在该地区，是，总的来说，一个受欢迎的除了名单。作者成功地实现了他们的既定目标，即对理解量子光学研究所需的许多基本要素进行“广泛的覆盖”。然而，我对作者希望学生在读完这本书后能够“做出自己的原创研究”持怀疑态度。我自己的感觉是，这本书在这方面做得不够深入。尽管如此，这本书代表了一个令人钦佩的尝试，汇集了许多不同的技术和概念，用于量子光学，并将，因此，是一个非常有用的补充书籍目前available.The书开始与光学双稳态，泵浦探测光谱和相干瞬态的简短论述，命名为一个选择的基本介绍材料的线性和非线性光学收集的步伐。几乎正好在三分之二的时候，我们第一次遇到了量子化的场，在那里我们对相干态的效用和意义进行了一次闪电之旅。步伐仍然轻快，因为我们通过当前感兴趣的量子光学，如Jaynes-Cummings模型，压缩态和微主理论的主题。一个人在最后有点喘不过气来，但幸运的是明智得多。对于量子光学的概述，正如它目前的实践，这本书是很难击败。因此，非常遗憾的是，没有更多地注意印刷的必要性。有许多粗心的错误，大大降低了这本书的质量，否则这本书会是一本优秀的书。一个例子是省略了图10-4和10-5。这是特别不幸的，因为这一节的书处理的外观混乱
DESPITE the rapid growth and increasing maturity of the field there are relatively few good text books available for researchers and students of quantum optics. The book Elements of Quantum Optics by Pierre Meystre and Murray Sargent III, two leading experts in the area, is, on the whole, a welcome addition to the list. The authors succeed in their stated aim of giving a'broad coverage'to many of the basic elements required for an understanding of quantum optics research. I am more sceptical, however, of the authors hope that students, after completing the book, will be able to'produce original research of the own'. My own feeling is that the book does not go quite deep enough for that. Nonetheless, the book represents an admirable attempt to draw together many of the diverse techniques and concepts used in quantum optics and will, for that reason, be an extremely useful supplement to the books currently available.The book begins with basic introductory material on linear and non-linear optics gathering pace with short expositions of optical bistability, pump-probe spectroscopy and coherent transients, to name a selection. Almost exactly two-thirds of the way through we meet quantized fields for the first time where we are treated to a lightning tour of the utility and meaning of coherent states. The pace remains brisk as we are led through topics of current interest in quantum optics such as the Jaynes-Cummings model, squeezed states and micromaster theory. One is left somewhat breathless at the end but happily much the wiser. For an overview of quantum optics, as it is currently practiced, this book is hard to beat. It is a great pity, then, that more attention has not been paid to typographical necessities. There are many careless mistakes which significantly detract from the quality of what would otherwise have been an excellent book. One example is the omission of figures 10-4 and 10-5. This is particularly unfortunate as this section of the book deals with the appearance of chaos