Quantization of the radiation field |
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| Authors: | Avinash Khare |
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| Institution: | (1) Institute of Physics, Sachivalaya Marg, 751005 Bhubaneswar, India |
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| Abstract: | I briefly review the seminal 1927 paper of Dirac which emphasized the need for the quantization of the electromagnetic field
and then showed how to carry it out. After mentioning few historical developments, I then point out some of the outstanding
successes of quantum electrodynamics —the kind of agreement which exists between theory and experiment is unprecedented in
the history of science.
Avinash Khare is with the Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar. His main interests are in the areas of field theory, nonlinear
physics, anyons and supersymmetric quantum mechanics. |
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| Keywords: | Quantum electrodynamics Maxwell's equations radiation field quantization Lamb shift |
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