Quantum Electrodynamics and Quantum Optics (Hardcover)

I. Quantum Electrodynamics.- Finite Boundary Effects in Quantum Electrodynamics.- Nonperturbative Quantum Electrodynamics of Bound States and Radiative Processes.- Mass and Charge Renormalization in Quantum Electrodynamics.- Simple Physical Pictures for Radiative Processes: Vacuum Polarization versus Radiation Reaction (Abstract).- The Hamiltonian of Quantum Electrodynamics.- Nonperturbative Methods in Bound State Quantum Electrodynamics.- Recent Advances in Muonium Hyperfine Splitting Calculations.- II. Quantum Optics.- Chaos in Radiative Interactions.- Electron Spectrum and the Time-dependence of Initial State Population in a Model for Laser Induced Autoionization.- Cooperative Effects in One Dimension.- Theory of Time-Dependent Spectral Observations in QED and Quantum Optics.- Keldysh Approximation Revisited.- Coherence and Saturation in Strong Field Ionization.- Quantum Fluctuations as Corrections to Slowely Varying Quantities.- Radiation Interaction of Rydberg Atoms.- The Role of Scalar Product and Wigner Distribution in Optical and Quantum Mechanical Measurements.- Configuration Interaction in Multiphoton Ionization.- III. Decaying States.- Nonlinear Wave Equation for Decaying States.- Interference Phenomena in Unstable States.- Nonperturbative Treatment of Decaying States.- IV. Gauge Invariance.- $$\vec A.\vec por\vec r.\vec E?.$$ Minimal Coupling and Multipolar Hamiltonians in the Quantum Theory of Radiation.- Manifest Gauge Invariance in Nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics with Classical Electromagnetic Fields.- Consequences of High Field Intensity in Semiclassical Electrodynamics.- Interaction Hamiltonian n Quantum Optics. Or: $$\vec p \cdot \vec Avs.\vec E \cdot \vec r$$ Revisited.- V. Quantum Correlations.- Is Reality Really Real? - An Introduction to Bell's Inequalities.- Bell's Theorem and Quasiclassical Quantum Distribution Theory: A Calculational Example.