"Version: 20181101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 26-27).Introduction -- Background -- Laser excitation -- Rydberg lifetimes -- Detection -- Interactions -- Current directions -- Rydberg sensors -- Rydberg quantum optics -- Rydberg quantum simulators -- Outlook.Rydberg physics is the land of gentle giants--highly-excited electronic states where an electron is, on …
"Version: 20240101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Discovery of quantum optics -- 2.1. Optics timeline : from corpuscles and waves to photons -- 2.2. Classical, semi-classical or quantum? -- 2.3. From radio frequency electromagnetic fields controlling quantum systems to quantum optics and back3. What is quantum in quantum optics? -- 3.1. Einstein's i…