Electrodynamics in the Coulomb gauge; quantization of the electromagnetic field; vacuum fluctuations and zero-point energy; quantum states of light: Fock states, thermal states, coherent states, squeezed states; interaction of light with atoms; absorption and emission of phtotons; Jaynes-Cummings model, coherence functions and photon statistics;
- Lehrende/r: Tilmann Kuhn
Semester: WiSe 2021/22