Fundamentals of Photon Physics

Part 1 PHOTONS: WAVE MECHANICS AND QUANTUM FIELD THEORY

1 "Bird's-eye view of electrodynamics as a gauge theory".

2 "Dynamical evolution equations of gauge photons".

3 "Quantum theory of gauge photons in structural vacuum".

4 "Maxwell operator equations. Einstein causality".

Part 2 ZERO - AND ONE-PHOTON STATES. BI-PHOTONS

5 "From gauge-photon vacuum to bi-photons".

6 "Operator extinction theorem: Mean fields, correlations, and fluctuations in free space".

7 "Group Theory of One-Photon States".

8 "Wave-packet photons and bi-photons".

Part 3 CONSERVATION LAWS AND LAGRANGIANS. GEOMETRIC PHASE AND TOPOLOGY

9 "From gauge-photon wave mechanics to the magnetostatic Aharonov-Bohm vector potential".

10 "Invariance properties and conservation laws in electrodynamics".

11 "Topology and geometric phase".

12 "Lagrangian approach to electrodynamics".

Part 4 "PHOTON SCATTERING THEORY. DENSITY OPERATOR FORMALISM".

13 "Standard light scattering theory, ante omnia".

14 "Semiclassical light scattering".

15 "Density matrix formalism. Resolvent operator".

16 "Microscopic extinction theorems".

Part 5 BASICS OF MESOSCOPIC ELECTRODYNAMICS

17 "Notes on nonlocal electrodynamics".

18 Quantum-field formalism.

19 "Surface plasmons, plasmaritons and jellions: Classical electrodynamics".

20 "Quantum theory of collective jellium fields".

21 "Heading for jellion quasiparticles".

22 Photon-spin interaction.

Part 6 BASICS OF MAGNON AND SUPERCONDUCTOR ELECTRODYNAMICS

23 "Spin-1/2 current density: Exponential photon source confinement".

24 "Spin waves in ferromagnets".

25 "Nonlinear electromagnetic rectification in BCS superconductors".

Part 7 PHOTONS TIED TO MASSIVE PARTICLES

26 "Radiation reaction in the self-field approach".

27 "Particle dressed by a cloud of transverse photons".

28 "The plasmariton quasiparticle. Surface plasmaritons".

Part 8 PHOTONS IN CURVED STRUCTURES

29 "The classical light particle: Geodesics and free fall".

30 "Electrodynamics in general relativity and non-inertial frames".

31 "Electrodynamics in spatially curved structures".

32 "Field-coupled surface Shroedinger equation. Moebius-band electrodynamics".

Part 9 EXTENSION OF QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS TO ELECTRO-WEAK INTERACTION

33 "Parity conservation and violation".

34 "Abelian and non-Abelian gauge fields".

35 "Hidden gauge invariance: U ( 1 ) case".

36 "Electro-weak theory: An introduction".

Part 10 MAGNETIC MONOPOLES

37 "On the Dirac monopole and its attached string".

38 "Magnetic monopoles: Non-retarded electrodynamics".

39 "Photon wave mechanical monopole theory".

40 "Magnetic monopoles in non-Abelian gauge symmetry".

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