Preface |
Quantum optics and quantum information / Part I: |
The quantum theory of light / 1: |
The classical electromagnetic field / 1.1: |
Quantization of the electromagnetic field / 1.2: |
Mode functions and polarization / 1.3: |
Evolution of the field operators / 1.4: |
Quantum states of the electromagnetic field / 1.5: |
References and further reading / 1.6: |
Quantum information processing / 2: |
Quantum information / 2.1: |
Quantum communication / 2.2: |
Quantum computation with qubits / 2.3: |
Quantum computation with continuous variables / 2.4: |
Figures of merit / 2.5: |
Density operators and superoperators / 3.1: |
The fidelity / 3.2: |
Entropy, information, and entanglement measures / 3.3: |
Correlation functions and interference of light / 3.4: |
Photon correlation measurements / 3.5: |
Quantum information in photons and atoms / 3.6: |
Photon sources and detectors / 4: |
A mathematical model of photodetectors / 4.1: |
Physical implementations of photodetectors / 4.2: |
Single-photon sources / 4.3: |
Entangled photon sources / 4.4: |
Quantum non-demolition photon detectors / 4.5: |
Quantum communication with single photons / 4.6: |
Photons as information carriers / 5.1: |
Quantum teleportation and entanglement swapping / 5.2: |
Decoherence-free subspaces for communication / 5.3: |
Quantum cryptography / 5.4: |
Quantum computation with single photons / 5.5: |
Optical N-port interferometers and scalability / 6.1: |
Post-selection and feed-forward gates / 6.2: |
Building quantum computers with probabilistic gates / 6.3: |
Photon counting and quantum memories / 6.4: |
Threshold theorem for linear-optical quantum computing / 6.5: |
Atomic quantum information carriers / 6.6: |
Atomic systems as qubits / 7.1: |
The Jaynes-Cummings Hamiltonian / 7.2: |
The optical master equation and quantum jumps / 7.3: |
Entangling operations via path erasure / 7.4: |
Other entangling gates / 7.5: |
Quantum information in many-body systems / 7.6: |
Quantum communication with continuous variables / 8: |
Phase space in quantum optics / 8.1: |
Continuous-variable entanglement / 8.2: |
Teleportation and entanglement swapping / 8.3: |
Entanglement distillation / 8.4: |
Single-mode optical qunat gates / 8.5: |
Two-mode Gaussian qunat operations / 9.2: |
The Gottesman-Knill theorem for qunats / 9.3: |
Nonlinear optical qunat gates / 9.4: |
The one-way model for qunats / 9.5: |
Quantum error correction for qunats / 9.6: |
Atomic ensembles in quantum information processing / 9.7: |
An ensemble of identical two-level atoms / 10.1: |
Electromagnetically induced transparency / 10.2: |
Quantum memories and quantum repeaters / 10.3: |
The atomic ensemble as a single qubit / 10.4: |
Photon-photon interactions via atomic ensembles / 10.5: |
Solid-state quantum information carriers / 10.6: |
Basic concepts of solid-state systems / 11.1: |
Definition and optical manipulation of solid-state qubits / 11.2: |
Interactions in solid-state qubit systems / 11.3: |
Entangling two-qubit operations / 11.4: |
Scalability of solid-state devices / 11.5: |
Decoherence of solid-state qubits / 11.6: |
Phonons / 12.1: |
Electron-phonon coupling / 12.2: |
The master equation for electrons and phonons / 12.3: |
Overcoming decoherence / 12.4: |
Strong coupling effects / 12.5: |
Quantum metrology / 12.6: |
Parameter estimation and Fisher information / 13.1: |
The statistical distance / 13.2: |
The dynamical evolution of states / 13.3: |
Entanglement-assisted parameter estimation / 13.4: |
Optical quantum metrology / 13.5: |
Baker-Campbell-Haussdorff relations / 13.6: |
The Knill-Laflamme-Milburn protocol / Appendix B: |
Cross-Kerr nonlinearities for single photons / Appendix C: |
References |
Index |
Preface |
Quantum optics and quantum information / Part I: |
The quantum theory of light / 1: |
The classical electromagnetic field / 1.1: |
Quantization of the electromagnetic field / 1.2: |
Mode functions and polarization / 1.3: |