Rice Perry. An Introduction to Quantum Optics: An Open Systems Approach

IOP, 2020. — 238 p. — (IOP Series in Emerging Tech in Optics and Photonics). — ISBN 978-0-7503-1713-9.This book provides a solid pedagogical background in the techniques used in quantum optics, with an emphasis on open quantum systems. Suitable for undergraduates as a second semester quantum mechanics course or first-year graduate students, this book begins with a short summary of quantum mechanics and contains physics of open systems and their application to light/matter interactions. Written in a simplified manner and classroom tested, this book provides the fundamentals of quantum optics and includes recent developments in the field.Classical electromagnetism and linear optics
QM review
Two-level dynamicsQuantum fields
Two-level atom coupled to a quantized field
Coherence and detection
The density matrix and the master equation or wave functions: the big lie
Quantum trajectory theory
Quasiprobability distributions