Photon-atom interactions

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

• The Casimir force: A diagramatic approach
• Absorption, emission, and scattering
• Resonant scattering
• Van der Waals interaction

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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
• 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)