Quantum Physics of Light and Matter Photons, Atoms, and Strongly Correlated Systems /

• Main Author: Salasnich, Luca (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2017.
• Series: UNITEXT for Physics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum field theory.; String theory.; Quantum physics.; Phase transformations (Statistical physics).; Condensed materials.; Condensed matter.; Quantum Physics.; Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.; Quantum Gases and Condensates.; Condensed Matter Physics.

This compact but exhaustive textbook, now in its significantly revised and expanded second edition, provides an essential introduction to the field quantization of light and matter with applications to atomic physics and strongly correlated systems. Following an initial review of the origins of spec...

Table of Contents:

• 1 The Origins of Modern Physics
• 2 Second Quantization of Light
• 3 Electromagnetic Transitions
• 4 The Spin of the Electron
• 5 Energy Splitting and Shift due to External Fields
• 6 Many-Body Systems
• 7 Second Quantization of Matter
• 8 Functional Integration for the Bosonic Field
• 9 Functional Integration for the Fermionic Field
• Appendix A Dirac Delta Function
• Appendix B Fourier Transform
• Appendix C Laplace Transform
• Bibliography.