Atom-Field Interactions and Dressed Atoms (Cambridge Studies in Modern Optics)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9780521019729
Subjects: Applied optics; Optics (light); Physics; Science; Science/Mathematics; Electricity; Quantum optics; Quantum optics Quantum optics; Science / Physics; Science-Electricity
First sentence: Introduction. The principal aim of this chapter is to familiarize the reader with the notation adopted in the text, as well as to introduce some concepts, such as the energy-momentum tensor of the electromagnetic field, the partition of its total angular momentum into an orbital and a spin contribution and its expansion in vector spherical harmonics, which are not usually included in an undergraduate course on electrodynamics.