Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1088/2053-2563/AAF3A3CH10
K. Likharev
The knowledge base developed in the previous chapters gives us a sufficient background for a (by necessity, very brief) discussion of quantum measurements.2 Let me start by reminding the reader the only postulate of the quantum theory that relates it to experiment – so far, meaning a perfect measurement. In the simplest case when the system is in a coherent (pure) state, its ket-vector may be represented as a linear superposition
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1088/2053-2563/aaf3a3ch9
K. Likharev
The brief introduction to relativistic quantum mechanics, presented in this chapter, consists of two very different parts. Its first part is a discussion of the basic elements of the quantum theory of the electromagnetic field (usually called the quantum electrodynamics, QED), including the quantization scheme, photon statistics, radiative atomic transitions, the spontaneous and stimulated radiation, and the so-called cavity QED. We will see, in particular, that the QED may be considered as the relativistic quantum theory of quasiparticles with zero rest mass – photons. The second part of the chapter is a brief review of the relativistic quantum theory of particles with non-zero rest mass, including the Dirac theory of spin-1⁄2 particles. These theories mark the point of entry into a more complete relativistic quantum theory – the quantum field theory – which is beyond the scope of this course.1
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