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A very useful technique when considering the quantized version of field theory (in particular, the quantum theory of electromagnetic fields) is that of normal, or Wick, products of operators, which will now be described.
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Ynduráin, F.J. (1996). Quantization of the Electromagnetic Field. Interaction of Radiation with Matter. In: Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Introduction to Field Theory. Texts and Monographs in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61057-8_8
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