Dressed state approach to quantum electromagnetics

摘要

We briefly define the scope of the field of quantum electromagnetics and introduce the dressed state approach to tackle problems in this field, such as atom-field interaction, multiatom coherence as well as the Casimir-Polder interaction amongst atoms and their electromagnetic environments. In particular we emphasize how classical computational electromagnetic knowledge is injected into these quantum mechanical calculations. The principle results of our efforts are summarized and a lookout for future studies are presented.