Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 The classical electromagnetic field in the absence of sources
- 2 The quantum electromagnetic field in the absence of sources
- 3 The quantum matter field
- 4 Electrodynamics in the presence of sources
- 5 Atoms dressed by a real e.m. field
- 6 Dressing by zero-point fluctuations
- 7 Energy density around dressed atoms
- 8 Further considerations on the nature of dressed states
- Appendix A Multipolar expansion for the vector potential
- Appendix B Electric polarization and magnetization of the Schrödinger field
- Appendix C Rayleigh-Schrödinger perturbation theory
- Appendix D Sum rules for the nonrelativistic hydrogen atom
- Appendix E From Gauss system to SI
- Appendix F Gauge invariance and field interactions
- Appendix G Dressed sources in relativistic QED and in QCD
- Appendix H The energy-momentum tensor and Lagrangian density
- Appendix I The dressed relativistic hydrogen atom
- Appendix J The nonrelativistic Lamb shift in a hydrogenic atom
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 November 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 The classical electromagnetic field in the absence of sources
- 2 The quantum electromagnetic field in the absence of sources
- 3 The quantum matter field
- 4 Electrodynamics in the presence of sources
- 5 Atoms dressed by a real e.m. field
- 6 Dressing by zero-point fluctuations
- 7 Energy density around dressed atoms
- 8 Further considerations on the nature of dressed states
- Appendix A Multipolar expansion for the vector potential
- Appendix B Electric polarization and magnetization of the Schrödinger field
- Appendix C Rayleigh-Schrödinger perturbation theory
- Appendix D Sum rules for the nonrelativistic hydrogen atom
- Appendix E From Gauss system to SI
- Appendix F Gauge invariance and field interactions
- Appendix G Dressed sources in relativistic QED and in QCD
- Appendix H The energy-momentum tensor and Lagrangian density
- Appendix I The dressed relativistic hydrogen atom
- Appendix J The nonrelativistic Lamb shift in a hydrogenic atom
- Index
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- Atom-Field Interactions and Dressed Atoms , pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995