OPT/QE1 Quantum Electrodynamics 1

Lecturer: Zdeněk Hradil
Lecture: 2 hours/week
Credits: 3
Winter semester
Form of course completion: exam

Interaction of electromagnetic filed with charged particles, time dependent perturbation theory, emission and absorption of photons, Feynmann diagrams, lifetime of excited atom, cross section of photoeffect, Compton scattering, Cherenkov radiation, single photon and two photon processes, natural linewidth and self-energy, second quantization of Schroedinger equation, spin-statistics theorem, relationship between second quantization and quantum mechanics, electromagnetic interaction, non relativistic Bremsstrahlung, Rutherford scattering, Renormalization in quantum electrodynamics, Casimir effect, renormalization of the mass of the electron, Lamb shift, correlations between fermions and photons, Hanbury-Brown Twiss experiment, quantum optics, interference and correlations of photons, nonclassical effects.