Modified Maxwell equations in quantum electrodynamics / Henning F. Harmuth, Terence W. Barrett, Beate Meffert.

Author/creator Harmuth, Henning F.
Other author Barrett, T. W. (Terence William), 1939-
Other author Meffert, Beate.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew Jersey : World Scientific,
Descriptionxii, 299 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Maxwell equations.
Quantum electrodynamics.

SeriesWorld Scientific series in contemporary chemical physics ; v. 19
Contents Machine generated contents note: PREFACE VII -- LIST OF FREQUENTLY USED SYMBOLS XI -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Maxwell's Equations 1 -- 1.2 Step Function Excitation of Planar TEM Wave 6 -- 1.3 Solutions for the Electric Field Strength 9 -- 1.4 Associated Magnetic Field Strength 13 -- 1.5 Field Strengths with Continuous Time Variation 20 -- 1.6 Modified Maxwell Equations in Potential Form 22 -- 2 Monopole, Dipole, and Multipole Currents -- 2.1 Electric Monopoles and Dipoles With Constant Mass 27 -- 2.2 Magnetic Monopoles and Dipoles With Constant Mass 37 -- 2.3 Monopoles and Dipoles With Relativistic Variable Mass 44 -- 2.4 Covariance of the Modified Maxwell Equations 53 -- 2.5 Energy and Momentum With Dipole Current Correction 61 -- 3 Hamiltonian Formalism -- 3.1 Undefined Potentials and Divergent Integrals 68 -- 3.2 Charged Particle in an Electromagnetic Field 78 -- 3.3 Variability of the Mass of a Charged Particle 88 -- 3.4 Steady State Solutions of the Modified Maxwell Equations 98 -- 3.5 Steady State Quantization of the Modified Radiation Field 108 -- 4 Quantization of the Pure Radiation Field -- 4.1 Radiation Field in Extended Lorentz Gauge 113 -- 4.2 Simplification of Aev((,0) and Amv((, 9) 135 -- 4.3 Hamilton Function for Planar Wave 140 -- 4.4 Quantization of a Planar Wave 147 -- 4.5 Exponential Ramp Function Excitation 150 -- 4.6 Excitation With Rectangular Pulse 158 -- 5 Klein-Gordon Equation and Vacuum Constants -- 5.1 Modified Klein-Gordon Equation 160 -- 5.2 Planar Wave Solution 168 -- 5.3 Hamilton Function for the Planar Klein-Gordon Wave 179 -- 5.4 Quantization of the Planar Klein-Gordon Wave 184 -- 5.5 Dipole Current Conductivities in Vacuum 187 -- 6 Appendix -- 6.1 Electric Field Strength Due to Electric Step Function 192 -- 6.2 Magnetic Field Strength Due to Electric Step Function 199 -- 6.3 Excitation by a Magnetic Step Function 210 -- 6.4 Electric Field Strength Due to Electric Ramp Function 216 -- 6.5 Magnetic Field Strength Due to Electric Ramp Function 220 -- 6.6 Component Amz of the Vector Potential 224 -- 6.7 Component Ae of the Vector potential 231 -- 6.8 Choice of p2 1 in Eq.(4.1-85) 238 -- 6.9 Excitation of a Spherical Wave 240 -- 6.10 Better Approximations of Dipole Currents 245 -- 6.11 Evaluation of Eq.(5.3-4) 259 -- 6.12 Calculations for Sections 4.2 and 4.3 271 -- REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY 291 -- INDEX 297.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 291-295) and index.
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