Fundamentals of Photon Physics [Hardcover]

Part 1??? PHOTONS: WAVE MECHANICS AND QUANTUM FIELD THEORY

1???????????? Birds-eye view of electrodynamics as a gauge theory .

2???????????? Dynamical evolution equations of gauge photons .

3???????????? Quantum theory of gauge photons in structural vacuum .

4???????????? Maxwell operator equations. Einstein causality .

Part 2??? ZERO - AND ONE-PHOTON STATES. BI-PHOTONS

5???????????? From gauge-photon vacuum to bi-photons .

6???????????? Operator extinction theorem: Mean fields, correlations, and fluctuations in free space .

7???????????? Group Theory of One-Photon States .

8???????????? Wave-packet photons and bi-photons .

Part 3??? CONSERVATION LAWS AND LAGRANGIANS. GEOMETRIC PHASE AND TOPOLOGY

9???????????? From gauge-photon wave mechanics to the magnetostatic Aharonov-Bohm vector potential .

10?????????? Invariance properties and conservation laws in electrodynamics .

11?????????? Topology and geometric phase .

12?????????? Lagrangian approach to electrodynamics .

Part 4??? PHOTON SCATTERING THEORY. DENSITY OPERATOR FORMALISM .

13?????????? Standard light scattering theory, ante omnia .

14?????????? Semiclassical light scattering .

15?????????? Density matrix formalism. Resolvent operator .

16?????????? Microscopic extinction theorems .

Part 5??? BASICS OF MESOSCOPIC ELECTRODYNAMICS

17?????????? Notes on nonlocal electrodynamics .

18?????????? Quantum-field formalism.

19?????????? Surface plasmons, plasmaritons and jellions: Classical electrodynamics .

20?????????? Quantum theory of collective jellium fields l39