Additional material covering topics in the book
Video of seminar by Daniele Pelliccia
A broad-brush overview of several key themes in our book.
30 minutes
Video of seminar by David Paganin
Some quantum-mechanical aspects of synchrotron emission.
30 minutes
Figure 6.13 on page 213 is a parameter-space chart indicating the domain of validity for a classical description of synchrotron radiation that ignores radiative damping.
This may be augmented by adding the hatched square in the modified form of the figure, with the hatched region showing the part of this parameter space occupied by contemporary machine sources of synchrotron light.
Lectures notes and videos on adjacent topics
Lectures on special relativity by David Paganin
Twelve one-hour video lectures with accompanying lecture notes and handwritten solutions to all exercises.
These lectures, particularly the first half, complement the development of special relativity in Chapter 2 of our book. Note that the tensorial formulation of special relativity, which is employed in the second half of the video lecture course, is beyond the scope of our textbook.
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Lecture notes
Lectures on quantum mechanics by David Paganin
Twelve one-hour video lectures with accompanying lecture notes and handwritten solutions to all exercises.
These lectures complement the development of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics that is employed in Chapter 6 and (more particularly) Chapter 7 of our book.
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Lecture notes on advanced quantum mechanics by David Paganin
These lectures complement the development of relativistic quantum mechanics in Chapter 6 and (more particularly) Chapter 7 of our book, together with the basic formalism of quantum optics that is used in Chapter 12.
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- Section 4 of the lecture notes discusses the Klein-Gordon equation of relativistic quantum mechanics, which is repeatedly employed in Chapter 7 of our book.
- Section 5 of the lecture notes discusses the Dirac equation of relativistic quantum mechanics, which is mentioned at several points in Chapter 7 of our book, as a relativistic quantum-mechanical equation that is able to take electron spin into account (with this important equation being beyond the scope of our book).
- Sections 17-28 of the lecture notes develop the quantum theory of radiation, the coherent states of the quantised electromagnetic field, the quantum-mechanical theory of coherence for photon fields, and some basic notions of quantum photon optics. This complements the treatment of such topics in Chapters 7 and 12 of our book (note that our book’s treatment of both the classical and quantum theory of coherence is very cursory).
- Section 31 of the lecture notes discusses links between causality and analyticity. This complements the cursory remarks regarding these topics that are given on pages 133, 527, 552, and 653 of our book (cf. pages 52 and 77 of our book).
Other material on applications of synchrotron light
Video lectures by David Paganin and Daniele Pelliccia, on applications of synchrotron light to x-ray imaging
Lecture notes
The corresponding notes employed during the video lectures are here.