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Quantum Physics of Light and Matter - A Modern Introduction to Photons, Atoms and Many-Body Systems (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
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Quantum Physics of Light and Matter - A Modern Introduction to Photons, Atoms and Many-Body Systems (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
Series: UNITEXT for Physics
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The book gives an introduction to the field quantization (second
quantization) of light and matter with applications to atomic
physics. The first chapter briefly reviews the origins of special
relativity and quantum mechanics and the basic notions of quantum
information theory and quantum statistical mechanics. The second
chapter is devoted to the second quantization of the
electromagnetic field, while the third chapter shows the
consequences of the light field quantization in the description of
electromagnetic transitions. In the fourth chapter it is analyzed
the spin of the electron, and in particular its derivation from the
Dirac equation, while the fifth chapter investigates the effects of
external electric and magnetic fields on the atomic spectra (Stark
and Zeeman effects). The sixth chapter describes the properties of
systems composed by many interacting identical particles by
introducing the Hartree-Fock variational method, the density
functional theory and the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. Finally,
in the seventh chapter it is explained the second quantization of
the non-relativistic matter field, i.e. the Schrodinger field,
which gives a powerful tool for the investigation of many-body
problems and also atomic quantum optics. At the end of each chapter
there are several solved problems which can help the students to
put into practice the things they learned.
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