Statistical Methods in Quantum Optics 1: Master Equations and Fokker-Planck Equations

Dissipation in Quantum Mechanics: The Master Equation Approach.- Two-Level Atoms and Spontaneous Emission.- Quantum-Classical Correspondence for the Electromagnetic Field I: The Glauber-Sudarshan P Representation.- Quantum-Classical Correspondence for the Electromagnetic Field II: P, Q and Wigner Representations.- Fokker-Planck Equations and Stochastic Differential Equations.- Quantum-Classical Correspondence for Two-Level Atoms.- The Single-Mode Homogeneously Broadened Laser I: Preliminaries.- The Single-Mode Homogeneously Broadened Laser II: Phase-Space Analysis.- References.- Index