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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Quantum Physics of Light and Matter
    sub title: A Modern Introduction to Photons, Atoms and Many-Body Systems
  name:
    name part: Salasnich, Luca.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: IX, 195 p. 6 illus. online resource.
  abstract: 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 statistical mechanics. The second chapter is devoted to the second quantization of the electromagnetic field, while the third chapter shows the consequences of the light field quantization in the description of electromagnetic transitions.In the fourth chapter it is analyzed the spin of the electron, and in particular its derivation from the Dirac equation, while the fifth chapter investigates the effects of external electric and magnetic fields on the atomic spectra (Stark and Zeeman effects). The sixth chapter describes the properties of systems composed by many interacting identical particles by introducing the Hartree-Fock variational method, the density functional theory, and the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. Finally, in the seventh chapter it is explained the second quantization of the non-relativistic matter field, i.e. the Schrödinger field, which gives a powerful tool for the investigation of many-body problems and also atomic quantum optics. At the end of each chapter there are several solved problems which can help the students to put into practice the things they learned.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: by Luca Salasnich.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum physics
  subject:
    topic: Atoms
  subject:
    topic: Phase transformations (Statistical physics)
  subject:
    topic: Condensed materials
  subject:
    topic: Condensed matter
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Physics
  subject:
    topic: Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Gases and Condensates
  subject:
    topic: Condensed Matter Physics
  classification: QC173.96-174.52
  classification: 530.12
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: UNITEXT for Physics
  identifier: 9783319051796
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05179-6
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    record creation date: 140513
    record change date: 20151204191645.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-05179-6