Quantum Physics of Light and Matter A Modern Introduction to Photons, Atoms and Many-Body Systems / by Luca Salasnich.

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 statistica...

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Main Author: Salasnich, Luca (Author)
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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Series:UNITEXT for Physics,
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505 0 |a From the Contents: The Origins of Modern Physics -- Second Quantization of Light Electromagnetic Transitions -- The Spin of the Electron -- Energy Splitting and Shift due to External Fields -- Many-Body Systems -- Second Quantization of Matter -- Appendix A Dirac Delta Function -- Appendix B Fourier Transform -- Appendix C Laplace Transform -- Bibliography. 
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