Centre for Quantum Technologies

Howard Carmichael

Speaker : Howard Carmichael

Title : Open Quantum Systems, Entanglement, and the Laser Quantum State

When : 29 Thursday, 16:00

Venue : Physics Conference Room, S13 Level M

Abstract :

An introduction to the treatment of open quantum systems as stochastic scattering processes (quantum trajectories) will be presented, together with some applications to illustrate the ideas. The final application will address the question: is optical coherence in fact a fiction [Moelmer, PRA 55, 3195 (1997)] or rather more fact than fiction [Noh and Carmichael, PRL 100, 120405 (2008)]?

Recommended background reading for this talk:

Physical Review Letter A, Vol55,3195

Physical Review Letter, Vol100,120405

Chapter 17 in H.J. Carmichael, "Statistical Methods in Quantum Optics 2: Non-Classical Fields" (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2008).