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Radiation and Quanta | 1 |
Quantization of the Radiation Field | 14 |
Absorption and Emission of Radiation | 27 |
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absorption atomic beam average beam splitter black-body calculated chaotic light classical theory coherence function coherent light coincidence rate correlation function density detected detector diffraction dipole distribution effect eigenstates Einstein electric field electrodynamics electromagnetic field electron emitted energy equation excited experimental fluctuations frequency Glauber half-silvered mirror Hamiltonian incident field intensity interaction interference fringes interference pattern interferometer Lamb Lamb shift laser Lett light beams Loudon Mandel maser measure molecule momentum normal observed obtained operator â oscillator particle perturbation phase photoelectric photoelectric effect photomultiplier photon photon antibunching photon number Phys Planck plane wave predicted probability amplitude Proc quantized quantum electrodynamics Quantum Mechanics Quantum Optics quantum theory radiation field Reprinted Paper resonance fluorescence result Schrödinger semiclassical single atom single mode single-mode slit spectrum spontaneous decay spontaneous emission Sudarshan superposition thermal tion transition vacuum vector Wolf zero zero-point energy