• The quantization of the electromagnetic field is a procedure in physics turning Maxwell's classical electromagnetic waves into particles called photons...
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    specifically the quantization of the electromagnetic field and the development of quantum electrodynamics. The empirical investigation of electromagnetism is at...
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    In electromagnetism, the electromagnetic tensor or electromagnetic field tensor (sometimes called the field strength tensor, Faraday tensor or Maxwell...
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  • infinite degrees of freedom is field quantization, as in the "quantization of the electromagnetic field", referring to photons as field "quanta" (for instance...
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    quantum of the electromagnetic field, including electromagnetic radiation such as light and radio waves, and the force carrier for the electromagnetic force...
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  • light requires the quantization of the electromagnetic field for a proper description and thus is a direct measure of the particle nature of light. In classical...
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    mathematical descriptions of the electromagnetic field that are used in the study of electromagnetism, one of the four fundamental interactions of nature. In this...
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    amount of energy is radiated. However, unlike Einstein, Bohr stuck to the classical Maxwell theory of the electromagnetic field. Quantization of the electromagnetic...
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    theory of the free electromagnetic field (one with no interactions with matter) was developed via canonical quantization by treating the electromagnetic field...
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    Positronium Precision tests of QED QED vacuum QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter Quantization of the electromagnetic field Scalar electrodynamics...
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    the quantization of the motion of particles, leaving the electromagnetic field classical, hence the name quantum mechanics. Later the electromagnetic...
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  • Quantum control Optical phase space Optical physics Optics Quantization of the electromagnetic field Two-state quantum system Spinplasmonics Valleytronics...
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    Zero-point energy (category Quantum field theory)
    with the process in which "particles" are actually created: spontaneous emission. Dirac described the quantization of the electromagnetic field as an...
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  • levels within an atom. Quantization is one of the foundations of the much broader physics of quantum mechanics. Quantization of energy and its influence...
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    QED vacuum (category Electromagnetic radiation)
    the lowest energy state (the ground state) of the electromagnetic field when the fields are quantized. When the Planck constant is hypothetically allowed...
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    canonical quantization) may be called perturbative quantization schemes. At present some of these methods lead to the most precise experimental tests of gauge...
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    RaƱada, Antonio F. (31 October 1995). "A Model of Topological Quantization of the Electromagnetic Field". In M. Ferrero; Alwyn van der Merwe (eds.). Fundamental...
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    compute the coefficient of spontaneous emission of an atom. Paul Dirac described the quantization of the electromagnetic field as an ensemble of harmonic...
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  • quantization contributes towards magnetic susceptibility of metals, known as Landau diamagnetism. Under strong magnetic fields, Landau quantization leads...
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    the universe, then all electric charge in the universe must be quantized (Dirac quantization condition). The electric charge is, in fact, quantized,...
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    In physics, electromagnetic radiation (EMR) is a self-propagating wave of the electromagnetic field that carries momentum and radiant energy through space...
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    physics, the history of quantum field theory starts with its creation by Paul Dirac, when he attempted to quantize the electromagnetic field in the late 1920s...
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  • photons in presence of a surface or a nanostructure. This method allows one to investigate time-varying nanoscale electromagnetic fields in an electron microscope...
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    quantization of the electromagnetic field for its explanation. The Casimir effect, where the ground state of the quantized electromagnetic field causes attraction...
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    Time (redirect from Time quantization)
    common scheme the absolute and non-dynamical character of Newtonian time of canonical quantization and path integral approaches with the relativistic and...
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  • Spontaneous emission (category Electromagnetic radiation)
    quantum field theory, wherein the electromagnetic field is quantized at every point in space. The quantum field theory of electrons and electromagnetic fields...
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  • considering effects of quantization; theories that incorporate quantum mechanics are called quantum field theories. In most contexts, 'classical field theory' is...
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    quantum field theory, it is known as canonical quantization, in which the fields (typically as the wave functions of matter) are thought of as field operators...
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    of a field as a fundamental quantity that could independently exist. Instead, he supposed that the electromagnetic field expressed the deformation of...
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  • An electromagnetic cavity is a cavity that acts as a container for electromagnetic fields such as photons, in effect containing their wave function inside...
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