Collective Electrodynamics: Quantum Foundations of Electromagnetism Book

	Foreword
	Personal Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Foundations of Physics	1
Pt. 1	Magnetic Interaction of Steady Currents	9
1.1	Model System	9
1.2	Matter	11
1.3	Electrodynamics	13
1.4	Coupling	15
1.5	Integral and Differential Forms	18
1.6	Electrodynamics Momentum	20
1.7	Forces of Currents	22
1.8	Multiturn Coils	23
1.9	Total Momentum	25
1.10	Current Distribution	26
1.11	Current in a Wire	27
Pt. 2	Propagating Waves	31
2.1	A Brief History	31
2.2	Four-Vectors	35
2.3	The Riemann-Sommerfeld Equation	37
2.4	Model System	39
2.5	General Boundary Condition	40
2.6	Coaxial Boundary Condition	40
2.7	Current-Voltage Relation	42
2.8	Electron Interaction	43
2.9	Propagation of Step Function	44
2.10	Waveguides	46
Pt. 3	Electromagnetic Energy	49
3.1	Energy in Electormagnetic Systems	49
3.2	Elementary Examples	52
3.2.1	Inductor	52
3.2.2	Capacitor	53
3.2.3	Resonator	53
3.3	Energy of Propagating Solution	55
3.4	Characteristic Impedance	55
3.5	Finite Coaxial Line	56
3.6	Reflection and Transmission	58
3.7	Infinite-Response Solutions	61
3.8	Local Conservation of Energy	63
3.9	Lorentz Transformation Revisited	65
3.10	The Lorentz Transformation	67
3.11	Resistance in Coherent Systems	69
Pt. 4	Radiation in Free Space	73
4.1	Integral and Differential Four-Vector Forms	73
4.2	Retarded and Advanced Potentials	75
4.3	Thermodynamics	79
4.4	Radiation Damping	80
4.5	Coupled Loops	81
4.6	Resonator	84
4.7	Two Coupled Resonators	85
4.8	Energy Coupling	87
4.9	Interaction with Arbitrary Phase	88
4.10	Generalized Energy Transfer	90
4.11	Random Universe	91
4.12	Cosmological Properties of Radiation Damping	93
4.13	Electric Dipole	95
4.14	Coupled Electric Dipoles	95
4.15	General Electromagnetic Coupling	97
4.16	Radiation Pattern	98
Pt. 5	Electromagnetic Interaction of Atoms	103
5.1	The Two-State System	104
5.2	Transitions	106
5.3	Transitions in Macroscopic Quantum Resonator	107
5.4	Radiation Transfer Between Atoms	109
App	The Fermi Sphere	115
A.1	Monolithic Solid	115
A.2	The k-Lattice	116
A.3	Fermi Sphere	116
A.4	Ring Geometry	117
A.5	Collective States	118
A.6	Classes of Solids	118
	Epilogue	119
	References	125
	Index	131