scholarly journals Symmetries, Conserved Properties, Tensor Representations, and Irreducible Forms in Molecular Quantum Electrodynamics

Symmetry ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 298 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Electromagnetic Field ◽  
Angular Momentum ◽  
Quantum Electrodynamics ◽  
Covariant Formulation ◽  
Continuity Equations ◽  
Symmetry Principles ◽  
Tensor Representations ◽  
Linear And Nonlinear ◽  
Fundamental Transformation ◽  
Robust Framework

In the wide realm of applications of quantum electrodynamics, a non-covariant formulation of theory is particularly well suited to describing the interactions of light with molecular matter. The robust framework upon which this formulation is built, fully accounting for the intrinsically quantum nature of both light and the molecular states, enables powerful symmetry principles to be applied. With their origins in the fundamental transformation properties of the electromagnetic field, the application of these principles can readily resolve issues concerning the validity of mechanisms, as well as facilitate the identification of conditions for widely ranging forms of linear and nonlinear optics. Considerations of temporal, structural, and tensorial symmetry offer significant additional advantages in correctly registering chiral forms of interaction. More generally, the implementation of symmetry principles can considerably simplify analysis by reducing the number of independent quantities necessary to relate to experimental results to a minimum. In this account, a variety of such principles are drawn out with reference to applications, including recent advances. Connections are established with parity, duality, angular momentum, continuity equations, conservation laws, chirality, and spectroscopic selection rules. Particular attention is paid to the optical interactions of molecules as they are commonly studied, in fluids and randomly organised media.

Energy, Information, and Superluminal Speed in Quantum Electrodynamics

2020 ◽  
pp. 27-33
Author(s):  
Boris A. Veklenko
Keyword(s):  
Electromagnetic Field ◽  
Perturbation Theory ◽  
Quantum Electrodynamics ◽  
Excited Atom ◽  
Standard Quantum ◽  
Energy Information

Without using the perturbation theory, the article demonstrates a possibility of superluminal information-carrying signals in standard quantum electrodynamics using the example of scattering of quantum electromagnetic field by an excited atom.

scholarly journals CASIMIR ENERGY OF A DILUTE DIELECTRIC BALL AT ZERO AND FINITE TEMPERATURE

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (06n07) ◽  
pp. 790-793 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. V. NESTERENKO ◽  
G. LAMBIASE ◽  
G. SCARPETTA
Keyword(s):  
Free Energy ◽  
Electromagnetic Field ◽  
Angular Momentum ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Finite Temperature ◽  
Bessel Functions ◽  
Thermodynamic Characteristics ◽  
Casimir Energy ◽  
Addition Theorem ◽  
Temperature Expansion

The basic results in calculations of the thermodynamic functions of electromagnetic field in the background of a dilute dielectric ball at zero and finite temperature are presented. Summation over the angular momentum values is accomplished in a closed form by making use of the addition theorem for the relevant Bessel functions. The behavior of the thermodynamic characteristics in the low and high temperature limits is investigated. The T3-term in the low temperature expansion of the free energy is recovered (this term has been lost in our previous calculations).

A note on Riesz potential

1951 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 436-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. C. Auluck ◽  
L. S. Kothari
Keyword(s):  
Electromagnetic Field ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Quantum Electrodynamics ◽  
Fourier Expansion ◽  
Riesz Potential ◽  
Arbitrary Parameter ◽  
Electromagnetic Potentials ◽  
Longitudinal Part ◽  
Definition Of

The object of the present paper is to discuss the Fourier expansion of the Riesz potential. For this purpose a new definition of the electromagnetic potentials, depending upon an arbitrary parameter α is given. It is shown that this definition is a generalization of the Wentzel potentials in the α-plane, whereas that given by Fremberg (3) is a generalization of the Maxwell potentials. The analysis is applied to the problem of eliminating, in a straightforward way, the longitudinal part of the potential describing the electromagnetic field. The problem of the quantization of the field, based on its Fourier expansion, will be considered in another paper. The recent work of Tomonaga, Schwinger and Dyson, and the regularization process of Pauli has lifted the theory of quantum electrodynamics to a much higher level of rigour and fruitful applicability. All the same, a further study of Riesz potential seems to us of some interest in this field.

Quantum vacuum torque on a bi-anisotropic absorbing magneto-dielectric cylindrical shell co-axis with a perfectly conductor cylindrical shell

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (26) ◽  
pp. 1950149
Author(s):  
Marzieh Hossein Zadeh ◽  
Majid Amooshahi
Keyword(s):  
Cylindrical Shell ◽  
Electromagnetic Field ◽  
Angular Momentum ◽  
Thermal State ◽  
Canonical Quantization ◽  
Vacuum State ◽  
Quantum Vacuum ◽  
Ladder Operators ◽  
Quantized Electromagnetic Field ◽  
Series Technique

A fully canonical quantization of electromagnetic field in the presence of a bi-anisotropic absorbing magneto-dielectric cylindrical shell is provided. The mode expansions of the dynamical quantum fields, contained in the theory, is achieved and the ladder operators of the system are introduced. Using the Frobenius’s series technique, the Maxwell’s equations in the presence of the bi-anisotropic absorbing magneto-dielectric cylindrical shell are solved and the space–time dependence of the quantized electromagnetic field is obtained. Applying the conservation principle of the angular momentum, the net quantum vacuum torque exerted on the bi-anisotropic absorbing magneto-dielectric cylindrical shell is calculated. The net quantum vacuum torque exerted on the cylindrical shell is calculated in the vacuum state and the thermal state of the system. The quantum vacuum torque on the cylindrical shell identically vanishes when the bi-anisotropic absorbing magneto-dielectric cylindrical shell is converted to an isotropic one.

The interaction of molecular multipoles with the electromagnetic field in the canonical formulation of non-covariant quantum electrodynamics

1970 ◽  
Vol 319 (1539) ◽  
pp. 549-563 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Electromagnetic Field ◽  
Physical Interpretation ◽  
Quantum Electrodynamics ◽  
Unitary Transformation ◽  
Canonical Quantization ◽  
Multipole Moments ◽  
Gauge Invariant ◽  
Covariant Quantum ◽  
Canonical Formulation ◽  
Gauge Conditions

The procedure devised by Dirac for the canonical quantization of systems described by degenerate lagrangians is used to construct the hamiltonian for molecules interacting with the electromagnetic field. The hamiltonian obtained is expressed in terms of the gauge invariant field strengths and the electric and magnetic multipole moments of the molecules. The Coulomb gauge is introduced but other gauge conditions could be used. Finally, a physical interpretation of the unitary transformation that may be used to generate the multipole hamiltonian is given.

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