A graphical method in quantum optics

A graphical method in quantum optics

In this paperwe describe in detail a graphicalmethod allowing the computation offield operator transformations in quantumoptics (QO). Its applications include beam splitters (BS),Mach-Zehnder interferometers (MZI), optical resonators (Fabry–Perot etc) as well as non-linear crystals featuring the process of spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC). Itsmain advantage compared to the traditio...

Interaction representation method for Markov master equations in quantum optics

Conditions sufficient for a quantum dynamical semigroup (QDS) to be unital are proved for a class of problems in quantum optics with Hamiltonians which are self-adjoint polynomials of any finite order in creation and annihilation operators. The order of the Hamiltonian may be higher than the order of completely positive part of the formal generator of a QDS. The unital property of a minimal qua...

Quantum Optics

Hybrid quantum computation in quantum optics

P. van Loock,* W. J. Munro, Kae Nemoto, T. P. Spiller, T. D. Ladd, Samuel L. Braunstein, and G. J. Milburn National Institute of Informatics, 2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8430, Japan Optical Quantum Information Theory Group, Institute of Theoretical Physics I and Max-Planck Research Group, Institute of Optics, Information and Photonics, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Staudtstrasse ...

Recent Developments in Quantum Optics

he quantum theory of light predicts many interesting effects that may seem counterintuitive or even impossible from a classical point of view. Several effects of this kind have been investigated at the Applied Physics Laboratory, including a new kind of interferometry, the cancellation of dispersion between two distant media, and a new type of phase associated with the electromagnetic field. So...