Quantum mechanics. Volume III, Fermions, bosons, photons, correlations, and entanglement / Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Bernard Diu, Frank Laloë ; translated from the French by Nicole Ostrowsky and Dan Ostrowsky.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CREATION AND ANNIHILATION OPERATORS FOR IDENTICAL PARTICLES<br> General Formalism<br> One-Particle Symmetric Operators<br> Two-Particle Operators<br> Complements<br> FIELD OPERATOR<br> Definition of the Field Operator<br> Symmetric Operators<br> Time Evolution of the Field Operator (Heisenberg Point of View)<br> Relation to Field Quantization<br> Complements<br> PAIRED STATES OF IDENTICAL PARTICLES<br> Creation and Annihilation Operators of a Pair of Particles<br> Building Paired States<br> Properties of the Kets Characterizing the Paired States<br> Correlations Between Particles, Pair Wave Function<br> Paired States as a Quasi-Particle Vacuum;<br> Bogolubov-Valatin Transformations<br> REVIEW OF CLASSICAL ELECTRODYNAMICS<br> Classical Electrodynamics<br> Describing the Transverse Field as an Ensemble of Harmonic Oscillators<br> Complements<br> QUANTIZATION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION<br> Quantization of the Radiation in the Coulomb Gauge<br> Photons, Elementary Excitations of the Free Quantum ?eld<br> Description of the Interactions<br> Complements<br> ABSORPTION, EMISSION AND SCATTERING OF PHOTONS BY ATOMS<br> A Basic Tool: the Evolution Operator<br> Photon Absorption Between Two Discrete Atomic Levels<br> Stimulated and Spontaneous Emissions<br> Role of Correlation Functions in One-Photon Processes<br> Photon Scattering by an Atom<br> Complements<br> QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT, MEASUREMENTS, BELL'S INEQUALITIES<br> Introducing Entanglement, Goals of This Chapter<br> Entangled States of Two Spin-1/2 Systems<br> Entanglement Between More General Systems<br> Ideal Measurement and Entangled States<br> "Which Path" Experiment: Can One Determine the Path Followed by the Photon in Young's Double Slit<br> Entanglement, Non-Locality, Bell's Theorem<br> Complements<br> APPENDIX: FEYNMAN PATH INTEGRAL<br> Quantum Propagator of a Particle<br> Interpretation in Terms of Classical Histories<br> Discussion. A New Quantization Rule<br> Operators<br> APPENDIX: LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS<br> Function of Two Variables<br> Function of N Variables<br> APPENDIX: BRIEF REVIEW OF QUANTUM STATISTICAL MECHANICS<br> Statistical Ensembles<br> Intensive or Extensive Physical Quantities<br> APPENDIX: WIGNER TRANSFORM<br> Delta Function of an Operator<br> Wigner Distribution of the Density Operator (Spinless Particle)<br> Wigner Transform of an Operator<br> Generalizations<br> Discussion: Wigner Distribution and Quantum Effects<br>