Covering a number of important subjects in quantum optics, this textbook is an excellent introduction for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students, familiarizing readers with the basic concepts and formalism as well as the most recent advances. The first part of the textbook covers the semi-classical approach where matter is quantized, but light is not. It describes significant phenomena in quantum optics, including the principles of lasers. The second part is devoted to the full quantum description of light and its interaction with matter, covering topics such as spontaneous emission, and classical and non-classical states of light. An overview of photon entanglement and applications to quantum information is also given. In the third part, non-linear optics and laser cooling of atoms are presented, where using both approaches allows for a comprehensive description. Each chapter describes basic concepts in detail, and more specific concepts and phenomena are presented in 'complements'.
Covering a number of important subjects in quantum optics, this textbook is an excellent introduction for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students, familiarizing readers with the basic concepts and formalism as well as the most recent advances. The first part of the textbook covers the semi-classical approach where matter is quantized, but light is not. It describes significant phenomena in quantum optics, including the principles of lasers. The second part is devoted to the full quantum description of light and its interaction with matter, covering topics such as spontaneous emission, and classical and non-classical states of light. An overview of photon entanglement and applications to quantum information is also given. In the third part, non-linear optics and laser cooling of atoms are presented, where using both approaches allows for a comprehensive description. Each chapter describes basic concepts in detail, and more specific concepts and phenomena are presented in 'complements'.
This book tells the autobiography of my father, his years in Haiti, and his transition as an immigrant in foreign lands. His personal account mirrors the daily struggles one may face under the Duvaliers' regimes in the sixties through the mid of eighties to cultural shock and identity in other countries. Growing up, he experiences a lot of different emotions regarding his father's absence from the home along with dealing with his sudden death that had such an impact on his life. He tells this story in a narrative to inform his deceased father about his life. In his prime years, his dad caresses the hem of his mother's skirt, expressing how close the pair were. Hence, his mother taught him domestic chores, which is culturally catered to women. Throughout his secondary years, he expresses the demise of his teacher purposely failing him to hinder him from moving forward in the next class as well as the financial difficulties he faced during his time at Diquini, a congressional school, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Luckily, his eldest brother, whom he mentions throughout his book, was a pivotal stepping stone in his success there, along with his transition in America. In hopes of creating a family with his first love from Haiti, Dadoutte, she swindles him in hopes that they'll be reunited one day. She's destined to marry another suitor. After denying himself from women for a long time, he decided to open his heart to a girl, Samartha Mentor, who's visiting his home church, Horeb, now his wife of thirty years. His goal in Canada was to achieve a scholarship to further his studies and dreams of becoming a physician. Being isolated from his family back in Haiti, his stay there with his cousin, Gabriel, was extremely short-lived. Throughout his demise, he sought aid again from his brother Maurice in bringing himself to the United States. There, he began doing many odd jobs working in factories creating furniture pieces and being a taxi driver before being driven into the education field by a friend, Dr. Emmanuel Celestin, who saw Jean-Claude wasting his life away as a taxi driver. Taking this new job, teaching Haitians and Hispanic immigrants English at Wingate High School, has allowed him to further his career as an educator, where he retired as a school counselor, twenty-eight years and an half later at the age of sixty-two. Enjoy your reading! Nhaomie-Claudia Blaise, Daughter
Avec pour cadre la basse-ville de Marseille à la fin des années du jazz, nous partageons la vie, démunie mais joyeuse, des matelots et des vagabonds qui trouvent leur paradis dans le port, alors débordant d'activité, de "la porte de l'Afrique". Sur les docks, des groupes et des individus cosmopolites se côtoient et s'affrontent parfois... L'évocation de l'existence au jour le jour de ce groupe d'amis ne se limite pas à ses discussions et ses beuveries, ses bals et sa musique endiablée, ses rencontres et ses amours, ses déboires et ses tragédies. Elle est l'occasion d'un panorama des apports culturels de la culture africaine à l'Occident. Elle contient une analyse très fine, et qui reste d'actualité, des problèmes de toute une société : l'exclusion, la situation des immigrés sans-papiers, les attitudes raciales complexes entre Blancs et Noirs, et aussi des clivages et dissensions entre les différents groupes de la diaspora africaine. Ce roman d'un écrivain de la Renaissance de Harlem, aujourd'hui devenu un classique aux Etats-Unis, non seulement valut à McKay une réputation internationale mais incita la génération de Senghor, Césaire et Damas à une revendication plus entière de sa Négritude.
This volume of Lévi-Strauss's writings from 1941 to 1947 bears witness to a period of his work which is often overlooked but which was the crucible for the structural anthropology that he would go on to develop in the years that followed. Like many European Jewish intellectuals, Lévi-Strauss had sought refuge in New York while the Nazis overran and occupied much of Europe. He had already been introduced to Jakobson and structural linguistics but he had not yet laid out an agenda for structuralism, which he would do in the 1950s and 60s. At the same time, these American years were the time when Lévi-Strauss would learn of some of the world's most devastating historical catastrophes - the genocide of the indigenous American peoples and of European Jews. From the beginning of the 1950s, Lévi-Strauss's anthropology tacitly bears the heavy weight of the memory and possibility of the Shoah. To speak of 'structural anthropology zero' is therefore to refer to the source of a way of thinking which turned our conception of the human on its head. But this prequel to Structural Anthropology also underlines the sense of a tabula rasa which animated its author at the end of the war as well as the project – shared with others – of a civilizational rebirth on novel grounds. Published here in English for the first time, this volume of Lévi-Strauss’s texts from the 1940s will be of great interest to students and scholars in anthropology, sociology and the social sciences generally.
Papers written during the last 40 years by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and his collaborators on various physical effects which can be observed on atoms interacting with electromagnetic fields.
Second in the renowned Marseilles trilogy following Total Chaos, “one of the masterpieces of modern noir” (Michael Dirda, The Washington Post). This second novel in Izzo’s acclaimed Marseilles trilogy is a touching tribute to the author’s beloved city, in all its color and complexity. Fabio Montale is an unwitting hero in this city of melancholy beauty. Montale has left a police force marred by corruption, xenophobia, and greed. But getting out is not going to be so easy. When his cousin’s son goes missing, Montale is dragged back onto the mean streets of a violent, crime-infested Marseilles. To discover the truth about the boy’s disappearance, he infiltrates a dangerous underworld of mobsters, religious fanatics, crooked cops, and ordinary people driven to extremes by desperation. “Noir at its finest.” —The Times Literary Supplement “Izzo, who died in 2000, is more than adept at noir conventions—gritty light, sudden switches of scene, the pervasive rot of cynicism, which sullies even the best intentions. But what makes his work haunting is his extraordinary ability to convey the tastes and smells of Marseilles, and the way memory and obligation dog every step his hero takes.” —The New Yorker “Like the best American practitioners in the genre, Izzo refrains from any sugarcoating of the city he depicts or the broken and imperfect men and women who people it.” —Publishers Weekly “This hard-hitting series captures all the world-weariness of the contemporary European crime novel, but Izzo mixes it with a hero who is as virile as he is burned out.” —Booklist
Vinci, caporal à la Légion étrangère, va terminer son engagement de cinq ans. Il a fait la connaissance de Maud, qui a été la maîtresse de son meilleur camarade, le sergent Lombardi, aujourd'hui démobilisé. Il s'apprête à rentrer en Europe et à se marier. Le 29 avril, il quitte Sétif pour représenter une dernière fois son bataillon au défilé de Camerone à Sidi Bel Abbès. A son retour, le 2 mai au matin, Maud a été enlevée par le Front de Libération. Des inconnus musulmans lui proposent une étrange et angoissante mission : Vinci est quasiment forcé d'accepter. Le roman s'ordonne autour d'une longue course en voiture, entrecoupée de rêves érotiques très violents. On découvre ainsi un aventurier, ou plutôt l'aventure d'un homme en compagnie de la mort des autres et de la sienne propre. L'écriture très particulière de ce roman est celle d'un professionnel de l'image, qui se situe en permanence à plusieurs niveaux pour raconter une histoire vécue, alternativement de l'intérieur et de l'extérieur. Jean-Claude Courdy, directeur de la station F.R.3 Nice Côte d'Azur a été reporter dans l'Algérie en guerre et correspondant de l'O.R.T.F. en Asie. Il a bifurqué à deux reprises vers l'audio-visuel éducatif. Il dirigeait les émissions éducatives de l'O.R.T.F. à la veille de l'éclatement de l'Office. Diplômé d'études supérieures de l'Université de Columbia, il cumule une expérience universitaire et journalistique. Il en est à son quatrième tour du monde. Il est l'auteur d'un long métrage et de plusieurs courts métrages. C'est son premier roman.
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