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In this chapter I will briefly focus on the description of the electromagnetic field inside a cavity. Starting from Maxwell’s equations, one can derive a formalism treating such field modes inside a resonator as harmonic oscillators. These field modes can then be quantized and treated as quantum harmonic oscillators.
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Nota bene: in this section the charge is abbreviated by capital Q and should not be confused with the cavity quality factor Q through out the rest of this thesis.
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I will use http://qutip.org and can highly recommend this free python based Quantum optics tool box.
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Putz, S. (2017). Confined Electromagnetic Waves—Cavities. In: Circuit Cavity QED with Macroscopic Solid-State Spin Ensembles. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66447-7_2
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