Official description

This course will consider the physics of the quantum electromagnetic field and how it interacts with matter. The matter will sometimes be treated classically, as in many devices used for the generation of nonclassical states of light, and sometimes quantum mechanically, as in the interaction of atoms, molecules, and quantum dots with the quantum electromagnetic field. We will focus both on the basic physics and on applications, such as integrated quantum photonics, Heisenberg-limited interferometry, and quantum information processing.