Quantum World Of Ultra-cold Atoms And Light, The - Book I: Foundations Of Quantum Optics - Gardiner, Crispin W (Univ Of Otago, New Zealand) a Zoller, Peter (Univ Of Innsbruck, Austria)

This century has seen the development of technologies for manipulating and controlling matter and light at the level of individual photons and atoms, a realm in which physics is fully quantum mechanical. The dominant experimental technology is the laser, and the theoretical paradigm is quantum optics.