Electron Theory and Quantum Electrodynamics: 100 Years Later / Edition 1

by Jonathan P. Dowling

Overview

Proceedings of a NATO ASI held in Edime, Turkey, September 5-16, 1994

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306455148
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	04/30/1997
Series:	NATO Science Series B: , #358
Edition description:	1997
Pages:	356
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

I. Quantum Electrodynamics.- Theory of the Energy Levels and Precise Two-Photon Spectroscopy of Atomic Hydrogen and Deuterium.- Quantum Electrodynamical Corrections in Highly Charged Ions.- Gauge Invariance on Bound State Energy Levels.- Renormalization of the Self Field QED.- Quantum Fluctuations and Inertia.- Mechanical Effects of Radiation Pressure Quantum Fluctuations.- Vacuum Structures for the Charged Fields in Presence of E-M Potentials and Boundaries.- Quantum Electrodynamics in Superconducting Circuits.- II. Quantum Optics.- Dynamics of the Micromaser Field.- Paradigm for Two-Photon Cascade Intensity Correlation Experiments.- Entanglement in Two-Photon Cascade Radiation and the Visibility of Second-Order Interference.- Quantum Beats Described by de Broglian Probabilities.- Quantum Oscillator with Kronig-Penney Excitation in Different Regimes of Damping.- Phase Distributions and Quasidistributions of Amplitude-Squared Squeezed States.- III. Electron Theory.- Hunting the Electron Electric Dipole Moment.- Dynamical Aspects of Classical Electron Theory.- Clifford Algebras, Supercalculus, and Spinning Particle Models.- The Purely Electromagnetic Electron Re-visited.- Field Theory of the Spinning Electron: I — Internal Motions.- Field Theory of the Spinning Electron: II — The New Non-Linear Field Equations.- Quantum Theory of Self-Organizing Electrically Charged Particles: Soliton Model of the Electron.- Comparison of Two Models of the Classical Zitterbewegung and Photon Wave Function.- IV. New Developments in Electromagnetism.- Conceptual Problems and Developments of Electrodynamics.- Localization of Electromagnetic Waves in 2D Random Media.- The Classical Lamb Shift: Why Jackson Is Wrong!.- New Maxwell Electrodynamics.- Geometric Theory of Radiation.- Is ThereAny Relationship between Maxwell and Dirac Equations?.- Contributors List.

Editorial Reviews

To commemorate the naming of the electron in 1894 and its establishment as the first and most fundamental of all elementary entities, 28 papers consider the development and still unsolved foundational problems of electron theory and electromagnetism, and well as different approaches to treating electromagnetic interactions and their scope. Among the topics are quantum electrodynamical corrections in highly charged ions, dynamics of the micromaser field, the field theory of the spinning electron, conceptual problems and developments of electrodynamics, and the geometric theory of radiation. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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