Atom-Field Interactions and Dressed Atoms Book

	Preface
1	The classical electromagnetic field in the absence of sources	1
2	The quantum electromagnetic field in the absence of sources	31
3	The quantum matter field	52
4	Electrodynamics in the presence of sources	81
5	Atoms dressed by a real e.m. field	114
6	Dressing by zero-point fluctuations	159
7	Energy density around dressed atoms	205
8	Further considerations on the nature of dressed states	275
	Appendix A: Multipolar expansion for the vector potential	310
	Appendix B: Electric polarization and magnetization of the Schrodinger field	317
	Appendix C: Rayleigh-Schrodinger perturbation theory	326
	Appendix D: Sum rules for the nonrelativistic hydrogen atom	330
	Appendix E: From Gauss system to SI	335
	Appendix F: Gauge invariance and field interactions	339
	Appendix G: Dressed sources in relativistic QED and in QCD	345
	Appendix H: The energy-momentum tensor and Lagrangian density	352
	Appendix I: The dressed relativisitic hydrogen atom	356
	Appendix J: The nonrelativisitic Lamb shift in a hydrogenic atom	359
	Index	363