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Interaction of Electromagnetic Fields with Matter

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In most cases we can think of matter as being build up of particles of mass m i and charge e i . The interaction of these particles with each other can often be described in terms of a potential V(…, x i …, x i , …).

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  1. W. Greiner: Quantum Mechanics — An Introduction, 3rd ed. (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 1994).

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  10. We follow here arguments given by L.D. Landau, E.M. Lifshitz: Electrodynamics of Continuous Media (Pergamon, Oxford 1960).

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  12. This was first examined by V. Weisskopf, E. Wigner: Z. Phys. 63 (1930) 54 and 65 (1930) 18.

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Greiner, W. (1998). Interaction of Electromagnetic Fields with Matter. In: Quantum Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58847-1_2

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