1. Quantum Theory of Free Electromagnetic Fields
1.1 Maxwell's Equations
1.2 Electromagnetic Plane Waves
1.3 Quantization of Free Electromagnetic Fields
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
