Partial Contents: STATISTICAL PHYSICS; Fractal singularities in a measure and how to measure singularities on a fractal; Quantum kinetic Heisenberg models: a unique dynamics; The kinetic boundary layer: a small scale system far from equilibrium; NUCLEAR AND HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; The K+ meson as a probe of neutron densities in deformed nuclei; Properties of the S matrix for absorbing potentials; Glauber theory of electron nucleus scattering; QUANTUM OPTICS; The group velocity of short optical pulses; Order and chaos in quantum optics; Beyond the coherent states: Gaussons of the electromagnetic field; Influence of phase diffusion on spontaneous oscillations in the laser with injected signal; Quantum chaos on a sphere; Quantum theory of balanced homodyne detection; A test for high order squeezing of a quantum electromagnetic field; Quantum coherence effects in a Compton regime free electron laser; Superfluorescence from randomly distributed atoms; and Quantum coherence, dissipation and measurement theory.
Partial Contents: STATISTICAL PHYSICS; Fractal singularities in a measure and how to measure singularities on a fractal; Quantum kinetic Heisenberg models: a unique dynamics; The kinetic boundary layer: a small scale system far from equilibrium; NUCLEAR AND HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; The K+ meson as a probe of neutron densities in deformed nuclei; Properties of the S matrix for absorbing potentials; Glauber theory of electron nucleus scattering; QUANTUM OPTICS; The group velocity of short optical pulses; Order and chaos in quantum optics; Beyond the coherent states: Gaussons of the electromagnetic field; Influence of phase diffusion on spontaneous oscillations in the laser with injected signal; Quantum chaos on a sphere; Quantum theory of balanced homodyne detection; A test for high order squeezing of a quantum electromagnetic field; Quantum coherence effects in a Compton regime free electron laser; Superfluorescence from randomly distributed atoms; and Quantum coherence, dissipation and measurement theory.
This book presents the papers given at a conference on quantum optics. Topics considered at the conference included the growth of precipitates in a super saturated system, a space-time picture of relativistic propagation of medium energy hadrons through nuclei, lattice gauge theories, electron-nucleus scattering, short optical pulses, gaussons of the electromagnetic field, collision-induced coherence, spontaneous oscillations in a laser with injected signals, amplitude and phase in quantum optics, and Rydberg atoms in resonant cavities.
This volume contains invited and contributed papers delivered at a symposium on the occasion of Professor Glauber's 60th birthday. The papers, many of which are authored by world leaders in their fields, contain recent research work in quantum optics, statistical mechanics and high energy physics related to the pioneering work of Professor Roy Glauber; most contain original research material that is previously unpublished. The concepts of coherence, cooperativity and fluctuations in systems with many degrees of freedom are a common base for all of Professor Glauber's research initiatives and, in fact, for much of contemporary physics. His role in shaping these cconcepts is reflected and honoured in the papers contained in this book.
W1 Resonant Pulse Propagation I.- W1-1 Some Nonlinear Properties of Pulse Propagation.- W1-2 Self-Induced Transparency in the Broadline and Narrowline Limits and Applications.- W1-3 Observation of Zero-Degree Pulse Propagation in a Resonant Medium.- W1-4 Higher Conservation Laws and Coherent Pulse Propagation.- W2 Quantum Electrodynamics and Alternative Theories I.- W2-1 Survey of the Present Status of Neoclassical Radiation Theory.- W2-2 A Test of Jaynes' Neoclassical Theory: Incoherent Resonance Fluorescence from a Coherently Excited State.- W2-3 Experimental Limitations to the Validity of Semiclassical Radiation Theories.- W2-4 Time Delay Statistics of Photoelectric Emissions: An Experimental Test of Classical Radiation Theory.- W3 Coherence Effects in Spontaneous Emission I.- W3-1 Non-Linear Radiation Reaction.- W3-2 Master Equations in the Theory of Incoherent and Coherent Spontaneous Emission.- W3-3 Influence of Resonant Frequency Shifts on Superradiant Damping.- W3-4 Spontaneous Emission Rate in the Presence of a Mirror.- W4 Coherence I.- W4-1 Atomic Coherent States in Quantum Optics.- W4-2 Coherent States in Modern Physics.- W4-3 Debye Representation and Multipole Expansion of the Quantized Free Electromagnetic Field.- W4-4 Volume of Coherence.- T1 Quantum Electrodynamics and Alternative Theories II.- T1-1 A Quantum Treatment of Spontaneous Emission without Photons.- T1-2 Finite Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics.- T1-3 The Use of Classical Solutions in Quantum Optics.- T1-4 Raman Effect in Semiclassical Theory.- T2 Light Scattering I.- T2-1 Theory of Resonant Light Scattering Processes in Solids.- T2-2 A Generalized Extinction Theorem and Its Role in Scattering Theory.- T2-3 Mode Analysis and Mode Coupling of Electromagnetic Fields in Spatially Dispersive Media.- T2-4 Amplitude Stabilization of Pulses from a Q-Switched Ruby Laser by Means of Interaction with a Non-Linear Medium.- T3 Correlation and Fluctuation Measurements.- T3-1 Two-Photon Time Distributions in Mixed Light Beams.- T3-2 Photocounting Inversion in Presence of Dead Time Effects.- T3-3 Image Reconstruction from the Modulus of the Correlation Function: A Practical Approach to the Phase Problem of Coherence Theory.- T3-4 Photon-Correlation Spectroscopy.- T3-5 Multi-Time Intervals Distributions of Photoelectrons from Stationary Pseudo-Thermal Light with Gaussian Spectrum.- T4 Light Scattering II.- T4-1 Adventures in Green's Land: Light Scattering in Anisotropic Media.- T4-2 Intensity Fluctuation Techniques in Light Scattering.- T4-3 Coherence Properties of Light through a Liquid Crystal.- T4-4 C. Non-Critical Rayleigh Scattering from Pure Liquids.- T5 Coherence Effects in Spontaneous Emission II.- T5-1 Cooperative Effects in Spontaneous Emission.- T5-2 Amplified Spontaneous Emission.- T5-3 Non-Gaussian Statistics of Superradiant Radiation from Saturated Xenon 3.5?m Laser Amplifier.- T5-4 On the Theory of Radiating Electrons.- T6 Coherent Light Interactions.- T6-1 Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy by Saturation with Coherent Light.- T6-2 Response Functions for Strongly Driven Systems.- T6-3 Mechanism of Interaction of Picosecond Light Pulses with Matter Yielding Self-Trapping.- T6-4 Resonance Fluorescence Lineshapes with Intense Applied Fields.- T6-5 Electron Beams as Carriers of Optical Coherence.- T7 Lasers.- T7-1 Detuned Single Mode Laser and Detailed Balance.- T7-2 Tunable Raman Lasers.- T7-3 Dye Lasers: Recent Advances in Tunable Systems.- F1 Quantum Electrodynamics and Alternative Theories III.- F1-1 A Theory of Light without Photons: Implications from Fermis to Light Years.- F1-2 Blackbody Heat Capacity and Action-at-a-Distance Electrodynamics.- F1-3 The Implications of Radiative Equilibrium in Jaynes' Extension of Semiclassical Radiation Theory.- F1-4 A Quantum Electrodynamic Investigation of the Jaynes-Crisp-Stroud Approach to Spontaneous Emission.- F1-5 Critical Comments on Radiation Theory.- F2 Resonant Pulse Propagation II.- F2-1 Cooperative Phenomena in Resonant Propagation.- F2-2 Theory of Sub-Cooperation-Limit Optical Pulses in Resonant Absorbers.- F2-3 Multiple Pulse Chirping in Self-Induced Transparency.- F2-4 Coupled Superradiance Master Equations: Application to Fluctuations in Coherent Pulse Propagation in Resonant Media.- F3 Coherence II.- F3-1 The Laser-Phase Transition Analogy - Recent Developments.- F3-2 Multiple-Time-Scale Analysis of Coherent Radiation.- F3-3 Orthogonal Operators and Phase Space Distributions in Quantum Optics.- F4 Coherence Effects in Spontaneous Emission III.- F4-1 Radiation by Many Excited Atoms between Mirrors.- F4-2 Transient Coherent Emission.- F4-3 Superradiance from a System of 3-Level Particles.- F4-4 A Quantum Electrodynamic View of Superradiance as a Competition between Stimulated and Spontaneous Atomic Decay.- F5 Post Deadline Session.- F5-1 Third- and Higher-Order Intensity Correlations in Laser Light.- F5-2 Correlation Function of a Laser Beam near Threshold.- F5-3 Localization of Photons.- F5-4 Adiabatic Following and the Self-Defocusing of Light in Rubidium Vapor.- F5-5 Experimental Evidence of an X-Ray Laser.- F5-6 Quantum Theory of Photodetection and Coherence Properties of Electrons.- F5-7 Statistics of Light Scattered by Non-Gaussian Fluctuations.- F6 Quantum Noise.- F6-1 Unified Thermodynamics of Dissipative Structures and Coherence in Nonlinear Optics.- F6-2 The Approach to Thermal Equilibrium in Systems of Coupled Quantum Oscillators Initially in a Generalized Gaussian State.- F6-3 Comparison between Incoherent and Chaotic Sources: Contribution to the Study of the Origin of Bunching Effect.- F6-4 Self-Pulsing in Laser Amplification of Broadband Noise.- Author Index.
Foreword. The quantal fattening of fractals N.L. Balazs. How and when quantum phenomena become real Ph. Blanchard, A. Jadczyk. Chaotic dynamics in a periodically driven anharmonic oscillator Yu.L. Bolotin, V.Yu. Gonchar, M.Ya. Granovsky. Coherent and incoherent dynamics in a periodically driven bistable system T. Dittrich, F. Grossman, P. Hanggi, B. Oelschlagel, R. Utermann. The Ehrenfest theorem for Markov diffusions P. Garbaczewski. The quantum state diffusion model, asymptotic solutions, thermal equilibrium and Heisenberg picture N. Gisin. Stochastic representation of quantum dynamics Z. Haba. Level repulsion and exceptional points W.D. Heiss, W.-H. Steeb. Type-II intermittency in the presence of additive and multiplicative noise H. Herzel, F. Argoul, A. Arneodo. Aspects of Liouville integrability in quantum mechanics J. Hietarinta. KAM techniques for time dependent quantum systems H.R. Jauslin. Dissipation and noise in quantum mechanics N.G. van Kampen. Irregular scattering, number theory, and statistical mechanics A. Knauf. Band random matrices, kicked rotator and disordered systems L. Molinari. Robust scarred states D. Richards. The quasiclassical statistical description of quantum dynamical systems and quantum chaos Yu.P. Virchenko. Quantum measurement by quantum brain M. Jibu, K. Yasue. Time reversal and Gaussian measures in quantum physics J.C. Zambrini. Stochastic resonance in bistable systems with fluctuating barriers L. Gammaitoni, F. Marchesoni, E. Menichella-Saetta, S. Santucci. Index.
1. Schroedinger operators : spectra, scattering and semiclassical behaviour.- Negative discrete spectrum of the Schroedinger operator with large coupling constant : qualitative discussion.- Discrete spectrum in the gaps of the continuous one in the large-coupling-constant limit.- On the asymptotics of discrete spectrum for the Schroedinger operator in electric and homogeneous magnetic fields.- Asymptotics of the discrete spectrum of Hamiltonians of quantum systems with a homogeneous magnetic field.- Asymptotics of eigenvalues for many-particle Hamiltonians at symmetry subspaces.- Spectral asymptotics with highly accurate remainder estimates.- Bound states and resonances in quantum wires.- Spectral properties of the operators H? = ??XX + p(x)? + v(?x), p is periodic.- Discrete spectrum for a periodic Schroedinger operator perturbed by a decreasing potential.- On a complete description of the principal discrete series of spectral invariants of the Hill operator.- WKB-approximations from the perturbation theory viewpoint.- Moving potentials and the completeness of wave operators. Part II : Propagating observables on scattering states.- Representation of the three-body S-matrix in terms of effective amplitudes.- A three-body one-dimensional system with increasing interaction : wave function asymptotics.- Surprises of quantum tunneling (something about the velocity of sub-barrier motion).- 2. Point and contact interactions, self-adjoint extensions.- Lifshitz tails and non-Lifshitz tails for one-dimensional random point interactions.- Point interactions with an internal structure as limits of nonlocal point interactions.- Green's function for the Aharonov-Bohm effect with a non-Abelian gauge group.- A model of zero-width slits and the real diffraction problem.- Construction of an inelastic scatterer in nanoelectronics by the extension-theory methods.- On boundary theory for Schroedinger operators and stochastic processes.- Dirac Hamiltonian with Coulomb potential and contact intraction on a sphere.- Self-adjoint extensions of Schroedinger operators with singular potentials.- Currents and the extension theory.- 3. Quantum chaos.- Chaotic quantum billiards.- Relevance of the localization to quasienergy statistics in quantum chaotic systems.- Singular continuous quasi-energy spectrum in the kicked rotator with separable perturbation : onset of quantum chaos ?.- Relation between correlation functions and spectrum statistics in the region of quantum chaos.- 4. Other topics.- Localization effects in non-homogeneous dielectrics.- A self-adjoint dilation of the linear Boltzmann operator.- Kato problem for functional-differential equations and difference Schroedinger operators.- An existence theorem for some nonlinear nonlocal Schroedinger operators and the solitonlike dynamics for the corresponding dynamical systems.- The Sturm-Liouville problem with a potential linear in spectral parameter.- Stochastic model of tree growth.- Critical phenomenon in the stationary model of random growth.- On a quantum-classical connection, hidden symmetries and a model of Josephson junction.- Open multiquantum systems. Method of a generating functional.- Generalized functions and their applications.- List of unpublished contributions.- List of participants.
Nonequilibrium Green's Functions: History, General Problems, Plasmas: Real-Time Nonequilibrium Green's Functions (L V Keldysh) Theory of High-Tc Superconductivity in Layered Cuprates (A A Abrikosov) Correlated Quantum Plasmas in Strong Laser Fields (M Schlanges et al.) Quantum Transport in Semiconductors: Non-Equilibrium Green's Functions in Semiconductor Device Modeling (R Lake et al.) Nonequilibrium Green Function Modelling of Transport in Mesoscopic Systems (A-P Jauho) Bohm Trajectories in Quantum Transport (J R Barker) Optical and Electronic Properties of Semiconductors: Coulomb Correlations in the Quantum Kinetics of Electron Phonon Systems (W Schafer et al.) Excitonic Quantum Coherences and Correlations in Semiconductor Quantum Wells (R Binder et al.) Nuclear Matter and High Energy Physics: Renormalization of Self-Consistent F-Derivable Approximations (H van Hees & J Knoll) Crossover from Neutron-Proton Superfluidity to Bose-Einstein Condensation of Deuterons in Nuclear Matter (A A Isayev) Kinetics of Vacuum Pair Creation in Strong Electromagnetic Fields (A V Tarakanov et al.) Alternative Computational Methods: Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory from a Practitioners Perspective (K Andrae et al.) Combination of Quantum Kinetic Theory and First-Principle Simulations for Strongly Correlated Quantum Plasmas (M Bonitz et al.) Tunneling of Interacting Identical Particles (Yu E Lozovik et al.) and other papers.