Quantum Statistical Properties of Radiation (Wiley Classics Library) by William H. Louisell (PDF)

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Now available in paperback, this classic work presents a cohesive account of developments in the quantum statistical properties of radiation from first principles, with emphasis on principles and techniques.

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⭐This work is one of the great classics in the field of quantum optics. It has been cited in a hundred (or more) books and a lot of papers. Most researchers in the field would have seen the title.Although some contents of this book is already obsolete, but it is still a useful reference. There are plenty of useful formulae. The calculation processes are described carefully and in detail. Especially, the chapter “Operator Algebra” is really overwhelming. A copy of the book is worth keeping in your bookshelf.Unfortunately, it has been OOP for several years. I hope it to be republished in some e-book formats. I suppose that Wiley still has the proofs of the title in electronic data.The book consists of chapters as follows. – Dirac Formulation of Quantum Mechanics – Elementary Quantum Systems – Operator Algebra – Quantization of the Electromagnetic Field – Interaction of Radiation with Matter – Quantum Theory of Damping–Density Operator Methods – Quantum Theory of Damping–Langevin Approach – Lamb’s Semiclassical Theory of a Laser – Statistical Properties of a Laser – Appendices

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⭐I give this book high marks for its excellent chapters on the quantization of the radiation field and on the interaction of radiation with matter. Otherwise it suffers from the usual physics weakness of being more mathematical than physical. For example the author blunders by writing that the length-gauge rate for spontaneous emission scales as the cubic power of the frequency of the emitted photon. But the squared modulus of the length-gauge radiative-dipole matrix element scales as the reciprocal of the frequency, such that the net scaling of the rate goes as the square of the frequency or equivalently as the fourth power of the atomic number in a hydrogen-like ion. This error shows the author’s lack of experience in practical quantum mechanics. Physics departments used to offer courses in physics without calculus for students who were weak in mathematics. It appears that today, with the collapse of the price of theory relative to experiment, we are offered mathematics without physics.

⭐本書は，量子光学の分野を中心に100冊以上もの書籍その他多くの論文が引用している古典的名著である．この分野における研究者であれば，どこかで必ず本書のタイトルを目にし，参照してみたくなるはずの本である．内容としては，量子力学や量子光学の原理や数学的な技法に重きが置かれている．教科書というよりは参考書や公式集に近い．理論系の研究者や学生にとって有用な数多くの数式が，丁寧な導出とともに記述されている．1973年に初版が発行されたこの本は，教科書としてはもはや時代遅れである．また，参考書としては，本書に類似した本も既に多く出ている．しかしながら，そうした本ですら，多くが本書を参考文献として挙げているのである．その原典が手に入らないことの損失は大きい．さらに，量子力学の初歩的な記述や数学的な準備から，減衰理論についての徹底した議論まで，ここまで親切かつ詳細に書かれている本は稀有な存在である．おそらく，本書の元版は電子データとしてWileyあたりが持っていると思う．いわゆる本として復刊するのが難しければ，せめてKindle向けの電子データとして提供してほしいものである．それくらい，重要な書籍なのだ．

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