The rapid development of quantum technologies has driven a revolution in related research areas such as quantum computation and communication, and quantum mater
Quantum mechanics does away with the distinction between particles and waves, and one of the more interesting implications of the wave/particle duality - the di
This thesis explores ultracold quantum gases of bosonic and fermionic atoms in optical lattices. The highly controllable experimental setting discussed in this
The formalism of quantum optics is elucidated in the early chapters and the main techniques are introduced. These are applied in the later chapters to problems