Photon-atom interactions

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

• Derivation of the QED Hamiltonian
  • API Appendix Summary of formulae
• Feynman diagrams and perturbative expansion of the time evolution operator
  • 2009 pdf
  • see API pp. 15-21 and Complement A_I
• Van der Waals interaction
  • 2009 pdf
  • see API pp. 121-126
  • four pages course notes from Dan Kleppner
  • Physics Today paper by L. Spruch (Nov. 1986, p. 37)
• Resonant scattering

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  Introduction to Atomic Physics

  Quantum light: states and dynamics

  Optical Bloch equations

  Photon-atom interactions

  Frontiers in Atomic Physics

  Ion traps and quantum information

  Quantum gases

Handouts (2007)

• Casimir force Lecture notes
  • Copies from Serge Haroche’s summer school notes
  • Jaffe paper on Casimir force and zero-point energy
• Resonant scattering see API pp. 93-97 and pp. 226 ff.