（英）維特拉Vlatko Vedral，英國Leeds大學(xué)終身教授，量子信息科學(xué)研究室主任。 1971年出生，英籍南斯拉夫裔科學(xué)家。1995年取得Imperial College of Science，Technology andMedicine的理論物理學(xué)士學(xué)位，1998年在導(dǎo)師Peter L.Knight爵士的指導(dǎo)下，取得該校物理學(xué)博士學(xué)位，論文題目是“糾纏態(tài)的量子信息論”。同年進(jìn)牛津大學(xué)從事博士后研究。2001年至2003年為牛津大學(xué)Keble學(xué)院的高級講師、帝國理工學(xué)院高級講師兼量子物理學(xué)科審稿人。主講量子力學(xué)、光學(xué)、數(shù)學(xué)、熱力學(xué)、統(tǒng)計力學(xué)、電磁學(xué)等多門課程，同時給博士后研究班開設(shè)《量子計算和量子光學(xué)》講座。這期間還到奧地利的維也納大學(xué)、加拿大的Waterloo大學(xué)、新加坡大學(xué)、維也納的Schr⒐dinger研究所、美國的普林斯頓大學(xué)做訪問教授。他是Nature，Phys.Rev.，Proc.Roy.Soc.，J.Mod.Opt.等雜志的審稿人，也是英國皇家協(xié)會、奧地利科學(xué)基金會以及其他國際基金會的評審人，還是博士論文和研究人員職稱資格的評審人。在短短的6年時間里，培養(yǎng)博士10名，發(fā)表量子光學(xué)、量子信息和量子物理的學(xué)術(shù)論文90多篇，單獨(dú)出版教材2本，合作出版著作3本。到世界各地講學(xué)100次，并經(jīng)常接受媒體訪談，已成為英國學(xué)術(shù)界一顆耀眼的新星。
圖書目錄
preface acknowledgements 1. from geometry to the quantum 2. introduction to lasers 2.1 normal modes in a cavity 2.2 basic properties of lasers 3. properties of light: blackbody radiation 3.1 planck's quantum derivation 3.2 the proper derivation of planck's formula 3.3 fluctuations of light 3.4 maxwell's lucifer 4. interaction of light with matter i 4.1 stimulated and spontaneous emission 4.2 optical excitation of two level atoms 4 3 life-time and amplification 5. basic optical processes—still classical 5.1 interference and coherence 5.2 light pressure 5.3 optical absorption 5.4 amplification: three level systems 5.5 classical treatment of atom-light interaction 5.5.1 dipole radiation 5.5.2 radiation damping 5.6 spectral lines 6. more detailed principles of laser 6.1 basic theory: classical electrodynamics 6.2 mode-locking 6.3 non-linear optics 6.4 phase matching 6.4.1 rigorous derivation 6.4.2 heuristic derivation 6.5 multiphoton processes 7. interactions of light with matter ii 7.1 vector spaces 7.2 dirac formalism 7.3 time dependent perturbation theory 7.4 alternative derivation of perturbation 7.5 the wigner-weisskopf theory 7.5.1 constant perturbation 7.5.2 harmonic perturbation 7.6 digression: entropy and the second law 7.7 einstein's b coefficient 7.8 multiphoton processes revisited 8. two level systems 8.1 operator matrix algebra 8.2 two level systems: rabi model 8.3 other issues with two level systems 8.4 the berry phase 8.4.1 parallel transport 8.4.2 the bloch sphere 8.4.3 implementation 8.4.4 generalization of the phase 8.5 gauge principle 9. field quantization 9.1 quantum harmonic oscillator 9.2 what are photons? 9.3 blackbody spectrum from photons 9.4 quantum fluctuations and zero point energy 9.5 coherent states 9.6 composite systems—tensor product spaces 9.6.1 beam splitters 9.6.2 generation of coherent states 9.7 bosonic nature of light 9.8 polarization: the quantum description 9.8.1 unpolarized light—mixed states 10. interaction of light with matter iii 10.1 fully quantized treatment 10.2 jaynes-cummings model 10.3 spontaneous emission—at last 10.4 the lamb shift 10.5 parametric down conversion 10.6 quantum measurement: a brief discussion 11. some recent applications of quantum optics 11.1 laser cooling 11.1.1 bose-einstein condensation 11.2 quantum information processing 11.2.1 quantum teleportation 12. closing lines 13. problems and solutions 13.1 problem and solutions 1 13.1.1 problem set 1 13.1.2 solutions 1 13.2 problem and solutions 2 13.2.1 problem set 2 13.2.2 solutions 2 13.3 problems and solutions 3 13.3.1 problem set 3 13.3.2 solutions 3 13.4 problems and solutions 4 13.4.1 problem set 4 13.4.2 solutions 4 13.5 problems and solutions 5 13.5.1 problem set 5 13.5.2 solutions 5 bibliography index
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