What Are the Best Textbooks for Quantum Optics and Cavity QED?

[Crass_Oscillator]

I just got put on a project involving quantum optics, but have a background in semiconductor transport physics/electronic structure of materials. Does anybody know of a good textbook in this area, covering topics such as, say, the Jaynes-Cummings model?

 

[Andy Resnick]

There are several that come to mind, try starting here:

https://www.qms.physik.uni-rostock.de/en/teaching/quantenoptik/ (the PDFs are in English).

 

[f95toli]

Gerry&Knight's book is quite good if you are are beginner

https://www.amazon.com/dp/052152735X/?tag=pfamazon01-20

It is also worth downloading a copy of the python toolbox Qutip; running the examples will teach you a lot about e.g. the J-C model.

 

[Crass_Oscillator]

Thanks, these both seem useful

 

[vanhees71]

May favorites for Quantum Optics are

J. C. Garrison, R. Y. Chiao, Quantum Optics, Oxford University Press (2008)
M. O. Scully, M. S. Zubairy, Quantum Optics, Cambridge University Press (1997)