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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Photon (redirect from Energy of light)
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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Bohr model (redirect from Sommerfeld-Wilson-Ishiwara quantization)
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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Quantum electrodynamics (redirect from History of quantum electrodynamics)
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 optics (redirect from History of quantum optics)
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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Quantum (section Quantization)
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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Gauge theory (redirect from Quantization of gauge theories)
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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Planck units (redirect from Planck magnetic field strength)
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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Landau levels (redirect from Landau quantization)
quantization contributes towards magnetic susceptibility of metals, known as Landau diamagnetism. Under strong magnetic fields, Landau quantization leads...
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Magnetic monopole (redirect from Dirac quantization condition)
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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Virtual particle (category Quantum field theory)
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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