Quantum Optics and Quantum Information

Barry M. Garraway (University of Sussex, UK)

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Blackwell Verlag GmbH
23 July 2025

Electronics & communications engineering

Unique in its rigorously combined treatment of quantum optics and quantum information, this textbook teaches the basic principles of light-matter interaction, the theoretical tools of quantum information, and how and which systems can be used for quantum information processing.

Adopting a didactical approach field-tested by the author in numerous lectures, the book introduces basic principles of quantum optics, ranging from cavity QED and the Jaynes-Cummings model to phase space functions, the detector theory and open quantum systems. While quantum information tools and formalisms are used to develop this theory, the quantum optics aspects serve as the foundation for a further discussion of physical implementations of quantum information processing devices. The foundations of quantum mechanics are discussed, such as decoherence, quasi-probability distributions, and entanglement, and the author additionally provides an introduction to the standard quantum information applications, such as quantum computation and quantum cryptography.

Problem sections at the end of each chapter help students to gain a deeper understanding of the subject matter, and a wide-ranging reference section covers quantum states often encountered in the literature.

The overall result is an integrated course on these two modern disciplines.

By: Barry M. Garraway (University of Sussex UK)
Imprint: Blackwell Verlag GmbH
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 170mm, Spine: 170mm
ISBN: 9783527411726
ISBN 10: 3527411720
Pages: 450
Publication Date: 23 July 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Barry M. Garraway is a Reader in theoretical physics at Sussex University. After gaining a Physics degree at Oxford University, he moved to Manchester and did his PhD in the field of quantum optics in which he remains active. His postdoctoral work was in Helsinki with Prof. Stig Stenholm on quantum physics and molecular wave packet dynamics. After a stint at Imperial College, where he worked with Sir Peter Knight on quantum optics, Dr Garraway moved to Sussex University in 1997. At Sussex he now works on quantum optics, quantum information processing, and on trapping and cooling cold atoms and molecules. Currently he heads the Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics research group at Sussex University.