Difference between revisions of "Photon-atom interactions"

Revision as of 23:47, 30 March 2009

This chapter begins our application of the optical Bloch equations to the exploration of interactions between photons and atoms.

Casimir force Lecture notes
- Copies from Serge Haroche’s summer school notes
- Jaffe paper on Casimir force and zero-point energy
Interaction processes between photons and atoms
- See API:
  - 1 Feynman diagrams see pp. 15-21 and Complement A_I
  - 2 Absorption, emission, scattering see pp. 67-93
  - 3 Resonant scattering see pp. 93-97 and pp. 226 ff.
Van der Waals Interaction
- see pp. 121-126 of API
- four pages course notes from Dan Kleppner
- Physics Today paper by L. Spruch (Nov. 1986, p. 37)

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 * [[Feynman diagrams and perturbative expansion of the time evolution operator]]
 ** [https://cua-admin.mit.edu:8443/wiki/images/9/9a/2009-03-20_Diagrams.pdf 2009 pdf]
+**    see API pp. 15-21 and Complement A_I
 * [[Van der Waals interaction]]
 ** [https://cua-admin.mit.edu:8443/wiki/images/f/f2/2009-03-30-van_der_Waals.pdf  2009 pdf]
-**            see pp. 121-126 of API
+**            see API pp. 121-126
 **           [http://cua.mit.edu/8.422/HANDOUTS/VanDerWaalsInteraction.pdf four pages course notes from Dan Kleppner]
 **           [http://cua.mit.edu/8.422/HANDOUTS/Retarded...long-range%20potentials.pdf Physics Today paper by L. Spruch (Nov. 1986, p. 37)]