THE NATURE OF LIGHT, WITH A GENERAL ACCOUNT OF PHYSICAL OPTICS
CONTENTS THE ORIGINS OF MODERN PHYSICS SPECIAL RELATIVITY QUANTUM MECHANICS AXIOMS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS QUANTUM INFORMATION QUANTUM STATISTICAL MECHANICS MICROCANONICAL ENSEMBLE CANONICAL ENSEMBLE GRAND CANONICAL ENSEMBLE SOLVED PROBLEMS SECOND QUANTIZATION OF LIGHT ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES PHOTONS ELECTROMAGNETIC POTENTIALS AND COULOMB GAUGE FOCK VERSUS COHERENT STATES FOR THE LIGHT FIELD LINEAR AND ANGULAR MOMENTUM OF THE RADIATION FIELD ZERO-POINT ENERGY AND THE CASIMIR EFFECT QUANTUM RADIATION FIELD AT FINITE TEMPERATURE PHASE OPERATORS ELECTROMAGNETIC TRANSITIONS CLASSICAL ELECTRODYNAMICS QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS IN THE DIPOLE APPROXIMATION SPONTANEOUS EMISSION ABSORPTION STIMULATED EMISSION SELECTION RULES EINSTEIN COEF?CIENTS RATE EQUATIONS FOR TWO-LEVEL AND THREE-LEVEL SYSTEMS LIFE-TIME AND NATURAL LINE-WIDTH COLLISIONAL BROADENING DOPPLER BROADENING MINIMAL COUPLING AND CENTER OF MASS THE SPIN OF THE ELECTRON THE DIRAC EQUATION THE PAULI EQUATION AND THE SPIN DIRAC EQUATION WITH A CENTRAL POTENTIAL RELATIVISTIC HYDROGEN ATOM AND FINE SPLITTING RELATIVISTIC CORRECTIONS TO THE SCHRÖDINGER HAMILTONIAN ENERGY SPLITTING AND SHIFT DUE TO EXTERNAL FIELDS STARK EFFECT ZEEMAN EFFECT STRONG-FIELD ZEEMAN EFFECT WEAK-FIELD ZEEMAN EFFECT MANY-BODY SYSTEMS IDENTICAL QUANTUM PARTICLES NON-INTERACTING IDENTICAL PARTICLES UNIFORM GAS OF NON-INTERACTING FERMIONS ATOMIC SHELL STRUCTURE AND THE PERIODIC TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS INTERACTING IDENTICAL PARTICLES VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLE HARTREE FOR BOSONS HARTREE-FOCK FOR FERMIONS MEAN-FIELD APPROXIMATION DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY MOLECULES AND THE BORN-OPPENHEIMER APPROXIMATION SECOND QUANTIZATION OF MATTER SCHRÖDINGER FIELD SECOND QUANTIZATION OF THE SCHRÖDINGER FIELD BOSONIC AND FERMIONIC MATTER FIELD CONNECTION BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND QUANTIZATION COHERENT STATES FOR BOSONIC AND FERMIONIC MATTER FIELDS QUANTUM MATTER FIELD AT FINITE TEMPERATURE MATTER-RADIATION INTERACTION CAVITY QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS BOSONS IN A DOUBLE-WELL POTENTIAL ANALYTICAL RESULTS WITH N ¼ 1 AND N ¼ 2 FUNCTIONAL INTEGRATION FOR THE BOSONIC FIELD PARTITION FUNCTION OF INTERACTING BOSONS SEMICLASSICAL APPROXIMATION AND IMAGINARY TIME BROKEN SYMMETRY AND ORDER PARAMETER IDEAL BOSE GAS: CRITICAL TEMPERATURE AND CONDENSATE FRACTION INTERACTING BOSE GAS: BOGOLIUBOV SPECTRUM DIMENSIONAL REGULARIZATION OF GAUSSIAN FLUCTUATIONS GROSS-PITAEVSKII EQUATION SUPER?UID HYDRODYNAMICS BRIGHT AND DARK SOLITONS FUNCTIONAL INTEGRATION FOR THE FERMIONIC FIELD PARTITION FUNCTION OF INTERACTING FERMIONS IDEAL FERMI GAS REPULSIVE FERMIONS: HARTREE-FOCK APPROXIMATION ATTRACTIVE FERMIONS: BCS APPROXIMATION CONDENSATE FRACTION OF COOPER PAIRS GINZBURG-LANDAU THEORY BCS-BEC CROSSOVER