"Version: 20200901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. How does light meet with matter? -- 1.2. Collectivity that matters -- 1.3. At the boundary from quantum to classical worlds2. Light-induced dipole-dipole interactions -- 2.1. Reservoir interaction volume -- 2.2. Resonant dipole-dipole interactions in free space -- 2.3. Two-dimensional dipole-dipole…
"Version: 202201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Bra ket algebra of Dirac -- 1.1. The bra and ket notation of Dirac -- 1.2. Hermitian conjugation -- 1.3. Definition of inner product (also called overlap) -- 1.4. Definition of outer product -- 1.5. Eigenvalue equation -- 1.6. Linear vector space -- 1.7. Linear independence -- 1.8. Linear dependence -- 1.9. Span (expansi…
"Version: 20220901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Motivation -- 1.2. Photons, waves and fields -- 1.3. A necessary notepart I. Basic photon states. 2. Field quantisation -- 2.1. Quantum mechanical background -- 2.2. Harmonic oscillator -- 2.3. Electromagnetic field quantisation -- 2.4. Canonical quantisation -- 2.5. Photon wavefunction -- 2.6. Qua…