This book combines these two discoveries to provide a complete description of the fundamentals of relativistic quantum physics, guiding the reader effortlessly from relativistic quantum mechanics to basic quantum field theory.

... quantization of the electromagnetic field is more delicate since the photon is massless.1 In the limit m → 0 the description of the vector field undergoes a qualitative change . Equation ( 7.1 ) obviously can no longer be applied . The ...

This book is an introduction to the techniques of many-body quantum theory with a large number of applications to condensed matter physics.

... quantization of the electromagnetic field in free space. Those familiar with this subject might want to glance at our notation and then proceed directly to Chap. 14. Section 13.1 quantizes a single-mode electromagnetic field using the ...

The book gives an introduction to the field quantization (second quantization) of light and matter with applications to atomic physics.

This book is about Maxwell's electromagnetic theory of light.

Developing the material at a level accessible even to newcomers to quantum mechanics, the book begins with topics that every physicist should know-quantization of the electromagnetic field, relativistic one body wave equations, and the ...

... quantization of the electromagnetic field in free space is treated in §4.4. In the subsequent calculations of the effects of interaction of the field with atomic media, it has been assumed that the materials are sufficiently dilute for ...

In this book Carver Mead offers a radically new approach to the standard problems of electromagnetic theory.

The material covered and the level of exposition make the book appropriate for graduate and undergraduate students in physics, as well as for teachers and researchers. The new edition is a corrected paperback edition for students.