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Quantum and Atom Optics Daniel Adam Steck Department of Physics, University of Oregon

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Acknowledgements A number of people have improved this work by graciously providing corrections, comments, and suggestions. Special thanks to: • Jeremy Thorn (U. Oregon) has pointed out many corrections and helped to clarify some of the concepts. • Jonathan Mackrory (U. Oregon) has also pointed out a vast number of corrections. • Steven van Enk (U. Oregon) has provided a number of corrections. • Anders Larsen (Aarhus U.) identified a sloppy argument in Section 18.1.1, and the derivation there follows his suggested proof. Anders also pointed out a sloppy and overzealous use of the term ‘‘Poisson process.’’ Also, thanks to: • Gregor Anich (U. Innsbruck) • Boris Albrecht (Niels Bohr Inst.) • Paul Andreini (U. Oregon) • Bernd Baumann (HAW Hamburg) • Jean-Baptiste Béguin (Niels Bohr Inst.) • Xiao Chen 陈宵(Wuhan University) • Bennett Christensen (UC Berkeley) • Dave Grych (U. Oregon) • Bruce Klappauf (U. Texas Austin) • Wil Kao (Stanford U.) • Lorena Komočar (Eindhoven U.) • Mark Kuzyk (Washington State U.) • Paul Lauria (UCSD) • Arscire Li (USTC) • Didi Liebfried (NIST) • Kyle Lynch–Klarup (U. Oregon) • Andrew McClung (Caltech)

• Erin Mondloch (U. Oregon) • Asaf Paris Mandoki (U. Nacional Autónoma de México) • Krishna Myneni (U. Alabama Huntsville) • Craig Price (Penn State) • Milan Radonjić (U. Hamburg) • Kevin Randles (U. Oregon) • Lijun Ren 任丽君(Sun Yat-Sen U.) • Jack Roth (UC Berkeley) • Heather Shannon (U. Maryland) • Fabian Schmid (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik) • Hervé Schmit-Veiler (ETH Zurich) • Stephen Schoun (Ophir Corp.) • Sompob Shanokprasith (U. Cambridge) • Eric Smoll (Northwestern U.) • Richard Wagner (U. Oregon) • Shuhao Wu (U. Oregon) • Jun Yin (U. Oregon) • Dylan Young (U. Colorado, Boulder) • Pu Zhang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology) • Peter Zheng (U. Oregon) • Zhiliang Yuan 袁之良(Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences)