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The Quantum Vacuum - An Introduction to Quantum Electrodynamics (Hardcover)
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The Quantum Vacuum - An Introduction to Quantum Electrodynamics (Hardcover)
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In modern physics, the classical vacuum of tranquil nothingness has
been replaced by a quantum vacuum with fluctuations of measurable
consequence. In The Quantum Vacuum, Peter Milonni describes the
concept of the vacuum in quantum physics with an emphasis on
quantum electrodynamics. He elucidates in depth and detail the role
of the vacuum electromagnetic field in spontaneous emission, the
Lamb shift, van der Waals, and Casimir forces, and a variety of
other phenomena, some of which are of technological as well as
purely scientific importance.
This informative text also provides an introduction based on
fundamental vacuum processes to the ideas of relativistic quantum
electrodynamics and quantum field theory, including renormalization
and Feynman diagrams. Experimental as well as theoreticalaspects of
the quantum vacuum are described, and in most cases details of
mathematical derivations are included.
Chapter 1 of The Quantum Vacuum - published in advance in "The
American Journal of Physics" (1991)-was later selected by readers
as one of the Most Memorable papers ever published in the 60-year
history of the journal. This chapter provides anexcellent beginning
of the book, introducing a wealth of information of historical
interest, the results of which are carefully woven into subsequent
chapters to form a coherent whole.
Key Features
* Does not assume that the reader has taken advanced graduate
courses, making the text accessible to beginning graduate
students
* Emphasizes the basic physical ideas rather than the formal,
mathematical aspects of the subject
* Provides a careful and thorough treatment of Casimir and van der
Waals forces at a level of detail not found in any other book on
this topic
* Clearly presents mathematical derivations
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