Functional Phase Space Methods - Quantum Optics in All Degrees of Freedom

This book focuses on functional phase space methods in quantum optics and provides a comprehensive introduction to the Wigner functional formalism. The book shows how this formalism can be used for analyzing and designing practical photonic quantum information systems. It also explains in detail the application of the Wigner functional formalism to parametric down-conversion, an important process in quantum optics.

About the author

Filippus Roux
, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Summary

This book focuses on functional phase space methods in quantum optics and provides a comprehensive introduction to the Wigner functional formalism. The book shows how this formalism can be used for analyzing and designing practical photonic quantum information systems. It also explains in detail the application of the Wigner functional formalism to parametric down-conversion, an important process in quantum optics.

Product details

• Authors: Filippus S Roux, Filippus S. Roux
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.08.2025
• EAN: 9783111445311
• ISBN: 978-3-11-144531-1
• No. of pages: 584
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 32 mm x 242 mm
• Weight: 1016 g
• Illustrations: 31 b/w and 27 col. ill., 5 b/w and 0 col. tbl.
• Series: De Gruyter Textbook
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Analysis; Quantenphysik (Quantenmechanik und Quantenfeldtheorie), Mathematische Physik, Optische Physik, SCI022000 SCIENCE / Physics / Electromagnetism, SCI057000 SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory, SCI053000 SCIENCE / Physics / Optics & Light, MAT003000 MATHEMATICS / Applied, MAT031000 MATHEMATICS / Transformations, quantum state preparation, Quanteninformationstechnologie, Parametrische Abwärtskonvertierung, Wigner-Moyal Formalism, Parametric down-conversion, Wigner-Moyal-Formalismus, Quantum Information Technology, Vorbereitung des Quantenzustands, continuous variable entanglement, Continuous Variable Entanglement.