| Code: | F E05 |
| Department: | Department of Theoretical Physics |
| Course director: | Mihály Benedict |
| Credits: | 2 |
| Semester: | not fixed |
| Hours/week: | 2+1 |
| Prerequisities: | Electrodynamics 1., Quantum Mechanics 1. |
| Type of assessment: | K or B |
Course description:
The quantization of the electromagnetic field. Number states, coherent
and squeezed states. Characterization of field states in phase space.
Quasiprobability distributions, the Wigner function. Semiclassical and
quantum description of atom-field interactions. The Jaynes-Cummings model.
Dissipative systems. Coherent propagation and the laser.
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