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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: quantum vacuum
    sub title: an introduction to quantum electrodynamics
  name:
    name part: Milonni, Peter W.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ScienceDirect (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    place:
      place term: Boston
    publisher: Academic Press
    date issued: ©1994
    date issued: 1994
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
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    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 522 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: In modern physics, the classical vacuum of tranquil nothingness has been replaced by a quantum vacuum with fluctuations of measurable consequence. In The Quantum Vacuum, Peter Milonni describes the concept of the vacuum in quantum physics with an emphasis on quantum electrodynamics. He elucidates in depth and detail the role of the vacuum electromagnetic field in spontaneous emission, the Lamb shift, van der Waals, and Casimir forces, and a variety of other phenomena, some of which are of technological as well as purely scientific importance. This informative text also provides an introduction based on fundamental vacuum processes to the ideas of relativistic quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory, including renormalization and Feynman diagrams. Experimental as well as theoreticalaspects of the quantum vacuum are described, and in most cases details of mathematical derivations are included. Chapter 1 of The Quantum Vacuum - published in advance in The American Journal of Physics (1991)-was later selected by readers as one of the Most Memorable papers ever published in the 60-year history of the journal. This chapter provides anexcellent beginning of the book, introducing a wealth of information of historical interest, the results of which are carefully woven into subsequent chapters to form a coherent whole.
  table of contents: 1. Zero-Point Energy in Early Quantum Theory -- 2. The Electromagnetic Vacuum -- 3. Some QED Vacuum Effects -- 4. Nonrelativistic Theory of Atoms in a Vacuum -- 5. Interlude: Radiation Reaction -- 6. The Vacuum in Quantum Optics -- 7. Casimir and van der Waals Forces: Prelude -- 8. Casimir and van der Waals Forces: Elaborations -- 9. The Dirac Equation -- 10. Introduction to Quantum Field Theory -- 11. Self-Energies and Renormalization -- 12. Feynman Diagrams -- App. A. Oscillator Equation and Absorption Rate -- App. B. Force on an Atom in a Thermal Field -- App. C. Derivation of Equation (2.28) -- App. D. Electric Field of Radiation Reaction -- App. E. Photodetection and Normal Ordering -- App. F. Transverse and Longitudinal Delta Functions -- App. G. Lorentz-Invariant Measure -- Index.
  note: Peter W. Milonni.
  note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
  note: digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: English.
  subject:
    topic: Quantum electrodynamics
  subject:
    topic: Électrodynamique quantique
  subject:
    topic: 33.51 quantum field theory
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Physics
    topic: Electricity
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Physics
    topic: Electromagnetism
  subject:
    topic: Quantum electrodynamics
  subject:
    topic: Kwantumelektrodynamica
  subject:
    topic: Eletrodinamica
  subject:
    topic: Théorie électromagnétique
  subject:
    topic: Électrodynamique quantique
  subject:
    topic: Electrodynamics
  classification: QC688 .M553 1994
  classification: 537.6/7
  classification: 33.51
  classification: 33.24
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      title: Quantum vacuum
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    origin info:
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    identifier: (OCoLC)28709624
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    record creation date: 101110
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