1 Overview of Microcavities; 2 Classical description of light; 3 Quantum description of light; 4 Semiclassical description of light-matter coupling; 5 Quantum description of light-matter coupling in semiconductors; 6 Weak-coupling microcavities; 7 Strong coupling: resonant effects; 8 Strong coupling: polariton Bose condensation; 9 Spin and polarization; Glossary; A: Linear algebra; B: Scattering rates of polariton relaxation; C: Derivation of the Landau criterion of superfiuidity and Landau formula; D: Landau quantization and renormalization of Rabi splitting; References
Summary
This volume covers a new and rapidly developing research field in physics. Confining light in small structures called microcavities produces new devices which exploit the quantum physics of light matter interactions
