Quantum Measurement Theory and its Applications

Download or read book Quantum Measurement Theory and its Applications written by Kurt Jacobs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent experimental advances in the control of quantum superconducting circuits, nano-mechanical resonators and photonic crystals has meant that quantum measurement theory is now an indispensable part of the modelling and design of experimental technologies. This book, aimed at graduate students and researchers in physics, gives a thorough introduction to the basic theory of quantum measurement and many of its important modern applications. Measurement and control is explicitly treated in superconducting circuits and optical and opto-mechanical systems, and methods for deriving the Hamiltonians of superconducting circuits are introduced in detail. Further applications covered include feedback control, metrology, open systems and thermal environments, Maxwell's demon, and the quantum-to-classical transition.