Photon-atom interactions
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This chapter begins our application of the optical Bloch equations to the exploration of interactions between photons and atoms.
- Derivation of the QED Hamiltonian
- Feynman diagrams and perturbative expansion of the time evolution operator
- 2009 Class notes
- see API pp. 15-21 and Complement A_I
- Van der Waals interaction
- Casimir interaction
- Resonant scattering
Handouts (2007)
- Casimir force Lecture notes
- Resonant scattering see API pp. 93-97 and pp. 226 ff.