QED2

Course: Quantum Electrodynamics 2

Department/Abbreviation: OPT/QED2

Year: 2021

Guarantee: 'prof. RNDr. Zdeněk Hradil, CSc.'

Annotation: Interaction of quantized electromagnetic field with charges, time-dependent perturbation theory

Course review:
-Interaction of quantized electromagnetic field with charges, time-dependent perturbation theory -Processes of emission and absorption of a photon, Feymann diagrams, lifetime of an excited state and cross section, description of external photoelectric effect -Scattering of a photon on a free electron, one- and two-photon processes, Compton scattering, Čerenkov radiation -Natural line width and self-energy -Formalism of the second quantization, quantization of the Schrödinger equations, relationship between a spin and statistics, relationship between the quantum mechanics and the second quantization -Quantum description of interaction of electromagnetic field with a matter, non-relativistic description of bremsstrahlung (braking or decelaration radiation), Rutherford scattering -Renormalization on quantum electrodynamics -Casimir phenomenon, renormalization of a mass of an electron, Lamb shift -Correlation between fermions and photons, Hangáry-Brown experiment, Twiss experiment -Quantum optics, interference and correlation of photons, non-classical phenomena