Foundations of Radiation Theory and Quantum Electrodynamics

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Classical and Quantum Theories of Radiation....Pages 1-21
Unified View of Spontaneous Emission in Several Theories of Radiation....Pages 23-35
Quantum Beats....Pages 37-43
On Quantum Beat Phenomena and the Internal Consistency of Semiclassical Radiation Theories....Pages 45-48
A Brief Survey of Stochastic Electrodynamics....Pages 49-63
A Canonical Transformation in Neoclassical Radiation Theory....Pages 65-81
Theory of Natural Line Shape....Pages 83-108
Resonance Fluorescence and Spontaneous Emission as Tests of QED....Pages 109-117
Phase Representation of Intense Photon Beams and Its Applications....Pages 119-125
Radiation Reaction in Nonrelativistic Quantum Theory....Pages 127-141
Heisenberg Equation of Motion Calculation of the Electron Self-Mass in Nonrelativistic Quantum Electrodynamics....Pages 143-148
Nonrelativistic Calculation of the Electron g Factor....Pages 149-154
Fundamental Physical Problems of Quantum Electrodynamics....Pages 155-163
Electromagnetic Interactions beyond Quantum Electrodynamics....Pages 165-172
Macroscopic Quantum Electrodynamics....Pages 173-182
A Local Gauge-Invariant Formulation of Quantum Electrodynamics....Pages 183-194
On a New, Finite, “Charge-Field” Formulation of Classical Electrodynamics....Pages 195-201
Analytic Coherent States for Generalized Potentials....Pages 203-218
Back Matter....Pages 219-220