Engineering Quantum Mechanics / Wiley - IEEE Bd.1 (ePub)

Preface vii PART I Fundamentals 1 1 Basic Quantum Mechanics 3 1.1 Measurements and Probability 3 1.2 Dirac Formulation 4 1.3 Brief Detour to Classical Mechanics 8 1.4 A Road to Quantum Mechanics 14 1.5 The Uncertainty Principle 21 1.6 The Harmonic Oscillator 22 1.7 Angular Momentum Eigenstates 29 1.8 Quantization of Electromagnetic Fields 35 1.9 Perturbation Theory 38 Problems 41 References 43 2 Basic Quantum Statistical Mechanics 45 2.1 Elementary Statistical Mechanics 45 2.2 Second Quantization 51 2.3 Density Operators 54 2.4 The Coherent State 58 2.5 The Squeezed State 62 2.6 Coherent Interactions Between Atoms and Fields 68 2.7 The Jaynes-Cummings Model 69 Problems 71 References 72 3 Elementary Theory of Electronic Band Structure in Semiconductors 73 3.1 Bloch Theorem and Effective Mass Theory 73 3.2 The Luttinger-Kohn Hamiltonian 84 3.3 The Zinc Blende Hamiltonian 105 3.4 The Wurtzite Hamiltonian 114 3.5 Band Structure of Zinc Blende and Wurtzite Semiconductors 123 3.6 Crystal Orientation Effects on a Zinc Blende Hamiltonian 135 3.7 Crystal Orientation Effects on a Wurtzite Hamiltonian 152 Problems 168 References 169 PART II Modern Applications 171 4 Quantum Information Science 173 4.1 Quantum Bits and Tensor Products 173 4.2 Quantum Entanglement 175 4.3 Quantum Teleportation 178 4.4 Evolution of the Quantum State: Quantum Information Processing 180 4.5 A Measure of Information 183 4.6 Quantum Black Holes 184 Appendix A: Derivation of Equation (4.82) 202 Appendix B: Derivation of Equations (4.93) and (4.106) 203 Problems 204 References 205 5 Modern Semiconductor Laser Theory 207 5.1 Density Operator Description of Optical Interactions 209 5.2 The Time-Convolutionless Equation 211 5.3 The Theory of Non-Markovian Optical Gain in Semiconductor Lasers 223 5.4 Optical Gain of a Quantum Well Laser with Non-Markovian Relaxation and Many-Body Effects 232 5.5 Numerical Methods for Valence Band Structure in Nanostructures 235 5.6 Zinc Blende Bulk and Quantum Well

DOYEOL AHN, PHD, is WB Distinguished Professor of Quantum Electronics in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Seoul (Korea). A Fellow of the American Physical Society and an IEEE Fellow, he has coauthored more than 190 refereed journal papers and three book chapters, and holds seven U.S. patents to date.

SEOUNG-HWAN PARK, PHD, is Professor in the Department of Electronics Engineering at the Catholic University of Daegu (Korea). He has written two book chapters and coauthored more than 160 refereed journal and conference papers.

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