O9 · Quantum optics
A 24-module path through o9 · quantum optics, in study order from foundations to the frontier.
Modules
- Quantization of the Electromagnetic Field
- Fock States and the Photon Number Basis
- Vacuum State and Zero-Point Energy
- Quadrature Operators and the Uncertainty Relation
- Coherent States
- Squeezed States of Light
- Photon Statistics and the Mandel Q Parameter
- Phase-Space Quasiprobability Distributions
- Coherence Functions and the Degree of Coherence
- Photon Antibunching
- Hanbury Brown–Twiss Experiment
- Single-Photon Sources
- Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion
- Homodyne and Heterodyne Detection
- Quantum State Tomography of Light
- Two-Photon Interference and the Hong–Ou–Mandel Effect
- Entangled Photon States
- Bell Inequalities and Bell Tests
- Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics
- Jaynes–Cummings Model
- Vacuum Rabi Oscillations and Splitting
- Purcell Effect and Cavity-Modified Emission
- Micromaser and Photon Number States in Cavities
- Photon Blockade