Fundamentals of photon physics

• Verfasst von: Keller, Ole [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Fundamentals of photon physics
• Verf.angabe: Ole Keller
• Ausgabe: First edition
• Verlagsort: Boca Raton ; London ; New York
• Verlag: CRC Press
• Jahr: 2025
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxiii, 525 Seiten)
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Series in optics and optoelectronics
• Fussnoten: Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
• ISBN: 978-1-04-010378-4
• ISBN: 978-1-003-02945-8
• Schlagwörter: (s)Photon / (s)Eichtheorie / (s)Quantenelektrodynamik / (s)Licht-Materie-Wechselwirkung
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Keller, Ole, 1945 - : Fundamentals of photon physics. - First edition. - Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2025. - xxxiii, 525 Seiten
• K10plus-PPN: 1899018948
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Abstract

Fundamentals of Photon Physics describes the richly faceted, basic theory of photon-matter interaction, selecting a wide number of topics.

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Author Biography -- Preface -- SECTION I: Photons: Wave Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory -- CHAPTER 1: Bird's-Eye View of Electrodynamics as a Gauge Theory -- 1.1. KINDERGARTEN STORY OF GAUGE TRANSFORMATIONS -- 1.2. GAUGE INVARIANCE IN QUANTUM MECHANICS -- 1.3. PHOTON WAVE MECHANICS BASED ON POTENTIALS -- 1.4. EXTENSION TO QUANTUM FIELD THEORY -- 1.5. FIELD-MATTER INTERACTION -- CHAPTER 2: Dynamical Evolution Equations of Gauge Photons -- 2.1. PHOTON: A LOCAL GAUGE PARTICLE -- 2.2. FROM STRUCTURAL VACUUM TO PARTICLE VACUUM -- 2.3. MINIMAL COUPLING. MOMENTUM OF TRANSVERSE GAUGE PHOTON -- 2.4. LONGITUDINAL AND SCALAR GAUGE PHOTONS -- 2.5. NEAR-FIELD PHOTON: A VIRTUAL LOCAL GAUGE PARTICLE -- 2.6. STRUCTURAL VACUUM IN THE RIM ZONE OF MATTER -- CHAPTER 3: Quantum Theory of Gauge Photons in Structural Vacuum -- 3.1. FROM PHOTON WAVE MECHANICS TO QUANTUM FIELD THEORY -- 3.2. COMMUTATOR RELATION BETWEEN FIELD COORDINATE AND CONJUGATE MOMENTUM -- 3.3. TRANSVERSE PHOTON CORRELATIONS. FEYNMAN T-PHOTON GREEN TENSOR -- 3.4. SOURCE CORRELATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH TRANSVERSE GAUGE PHOTON EMISSION -- 3.5. LAGRANGIAN AND HAMILTONIAN APPROACHES -- 3.6. HEISENBERG OPERATOR EQUATIONS FOR TRANSVERSE GAUGE PHOTON DYNAMICS -- CHAPTER 4: Maxwell Operator Equations. Einstein Causality -- 4.1. FROM STRUCTURAL VACUUM TO PARTICLE VACUUM -- 4.2. HEISENBERG EQUATIONS FOR ET (R, T), B(R, T) -- 4.3. PHOTON ENERGY WAVE FUNCTION FORMALISM -- 4.4. SELFCONSISTENCY, RESPONSE THEORY AND CAUSALITY -- SECTION II: Zero - and One-Photon States. Bi-photons -- CHAPTER 5: From Gauge-Photon Vacuum to Bi-Photons -- 5.1. CAVITY ELECTRODYNAMICS -- 5.2. SINGLE-PHOTON WAVE PACKETS -- 5.3. BI-PHOTONS: ENTANGLED TWO-PHOTON STATES.