1.4 Eigenstates of Electromagnetic Fields
1.5 Coherent States （Glauber States） of Electromagnetic Fields
1.6 Biographical Notes
2. Interaction of Electromagnetic Fields with Matter
2.1 Emission of Radiation from an Excited Atom
2.2 Lifetime of an Excited State
2.3 Absorption of Photons
2.4 Photon Scattering from Free Electrons
2.5 Calculation of the Total Photon Scattering Cross Section
2.6 Cherenkov Radiation of a SchrSdinger Electron
2.7 Natural Linewidth and Self-energy
3. Noninteracting Fields
3.1 Spin-Statistics Theorem
3.2 Relationship Between Second Quantization and Elementary Quantum Mechanics
4. Quantum Fields with Interaction
5. Infinities in Quantum Electrodynamics： Renormalization Problems
5.1 Attraction of Parallel， Conducting Plates Due to Field Quantum Fluctuations （Casimir Effect）
5.2 Renormalization of the Electron Mass
5.3 The Splitting of the Hydrogen States 2sl/2-2p3/2： The Lamb Shift
5.4 Is There an Inconsistency in Bethe’s Approach?
6. Nonrelativistic Quantum Field Theory of Interacting Particles and Its Applications
6.1 Quantum Gases
6.2 Nearly Ideal， Degenerate Bose-Einstein Gases
7. Superfluidity
7.1 Basics of a Microscopic Theory of Superfluidity
7.2 Landau’s Theory of Superfluidity
8. Pair Correlations Among Fermions and Bosons
8.1 Pair-Correlation Function for Fermions
8.2 Pair-Correlation Function for Bosons
8.3 The Hanbury-Brown and Twiss Effect
8.4 Cooper Pairs
9. Quasiparticles in Plasmas and Metals： Selected Topics…
9.1 Plasmons and Phonons
10. Basics of Quantum Statistics
10.1 Concept of Quantum Statistics and the Notion of Entropy
10.2 Density Operator of a Many-Particle State
10.3 Dynamics of a Quantum-Statistical Ensemble
10.4 Ordered and Disordered Systems： The Density Operator and Entropy
10.5 Stationary Ensembles
11. Structure of Atoms
11.1 Atoms with Two Electrons
11.2 The Hartree Method
11.3 Thomas-Fermi Method
11.4 The Hartree-Fock Method
11.5 On the Periodic System of the Elements
11.6 Splitting of Orbital Multiplets
11.7 Spin-Orbit Interaction
11.8 Treatment of the Spin-Orbit Splitting in the Hartree-Fock Approach
11.9 The Zeeman Effect
11.10 Biographical Notes
12. Elementary Structure of Molecules
12.1 Born-Oppenheimer Approximation
12.2 The H+2 Ion as an Example
12.3 The Hydrogen Molecule
12.4 Electron Pairing
12.5 Spatially Oriented Orbits
12.6 Hybridization
12.7 Hydrocarbons
12.8 Biographical Notes
13. Feynman’s Path Integral Formulation of Schrodinger’s Wave Mechanics
13.1 Action Functional in Classical Mechanics and Schrodinger’s Wave Mechanics
13.2 Transition Amplitude as a Path Integral
13.3 Path Integral Representation of the Schrodinger Propagator
13.4 Alternative Derivation of the Schrodinger Equation
13.5 Biographical Notes
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