Quantum Electrodynamics and Quantum Optics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

   PDF

2. Quantum Electrodynamics

   1. Finite Boundary Effects in Quantum Electrodynamics

      • G. S. Agarwal

      Pages 1-13

   2. Nonperturbative Quantum Electrodynamics of Bound States and Radiative Processes

      • A. O. Barut

      Pages 15-29

   3. Mass and Charge Renormalization in Quantum Electrodynamics

      • M. Berrondo

      Pages 31-37

   4. Simple Physical Pictures for Radiative Processes Vacuum Fluctuations versus Radiation Reaction

      • Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

      Pages 39-40

   5. The Hamiltonian of Quantum Electrodynamics

      • Iwo Bialynicki-Birula

      Pages 41-61

   6. Nonperturbative Methods in Bound State Quantum Electrodynamics

      • Peter J. Mohr

      Pages 63-82

   7. Recent Advances in Muonium Hyperfine Splitting Calculations

      • J. R. Sapirstein

      Pages 83-95

3. Quantum Optics

   1. Chaos in Radiative Interactions

      • J. R. Ackerhalt, H. W. Galbraith, P. W. Milonni

      Pages 97-166

   2. Electron Spectrum and the Time-Dependence of Initial State Population in a Model for Laser Induced Autoionization

      • D. Agassi

      Pages 167-194

   3. Cooperative Effects in One Dimension

      • V. Benza, E. Montaldi

      Pages 195-207

   4. Theory of Time-Dependent Spectral Observations in Qed and Quantum Optics

      • J. H. Eberly

      Pages 209-227

   5. Keldysh Approximation Revisited

      • Howard R. Reiss

      Pages 229-236

   6. Coherence and Saturation in Strong Field Ionization

      • Kazimierz Rzażewski

      Pages 237-261

   7. Quantum Fluctuations as Corrections to Slowly Varying Quantities

      • Stig Stenholm

      Pages 263-279

   8. Radiation Interaction of Rydberg Atoms

      • Herbert Walther

      Pages 281-303

   9. The Role of Scalar Product and Wigner Distribution in Optical and Quantum Mechanical Measurements

      • K. Wódkiewicz

      Pages 305-312

   10. Configuration Interaction in Multiphoton Ionization

       • P. Zoller, E. Matthias, S. J. Smith

       Pages 313-321

4. Decaying States

   1. Nonlinear Wave Equation for Decaying States

      • M. D. Girardeau

      Pages 323-326

   2. Interference Phenomena in Unstable States

      • Laurent P. Lévy

      Pages 327-340

The borderline of quantum electrodynamics and quantum optics offer spectacular results and problems concerning the foundations of radiation theory. Perhaps the major new viewpoint that has emerged from recent investigations is that one can now work inside a time-dependent quantum process, whereas up to now all elementary quantum processes were either stationary, or one worked with asymptotic in-and out-states, i.e. an S-matrix approach. In the-rirst part of this volume, the Quantum Electrodynamics, the present status of the main approaches to this most accurate of all physical theories are discussed: the Hamiltonian approach, the Green's function approach with particular emphasis to bound state problems, and the newer, nonperturbative approach. The latest numerical results on radiative corrections, Lamb shifts and anomalous magnetic moments are reviewed with new results for high Z atoms. Also discussed are different theoretical interpretations of the radiative phenomena as due to quantized field vacuum fluctuations or due to self energy. A small group of contributions are devoted to the physics and mathematical description of decaying or unstable states in quantum theory. This remarkable phenomenon of quantum theory still needs complete clarification, it is a time-dependent phenomenon, which can be described also by asymptotic S-matrix methods, but with complex energies.

• chaos
• coherence
• electrodynamics
• hyperfine
• quantum electrodynamics
• quantum mechanics
• quantum optics
• quantum theory
• relativistic quantum mechanics
• renormalization
• wave equation

• University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

  A. O. Barut

Policies and ethics