120 credits in science/engineering. Participation in the courses Quantum Mechanics, Advanced Course and Solid State Physics I/F. Proficiency in English equivalent to the Swedish upper secondary course English 6.
Light as waves, beams and photons. The quantisation of free radiation and the Hamiltonian for quantised radiation. Momentum and angular momentum of radiation. Ground states of quantum radiation, vacuum fluctuations, Casimir effect. Single-mode and multi-mode quantum radiation. Squeezed and entangled polarisation states of photons. Quantum information.
