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What is the dipole approximation?
When the wavelength is long, this can be used without any problems.
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What is the electric charge?
This is the one thing, magnetism is truly jealous of.
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What is the length gauge?
From a classical perspective, this gauge is the most direct way to describe light-matter interaction.
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What is a gauge transformation?
This can make calculations shorter and even potentials disappear.
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What is the ponderomotive energy.
This is the amount of energy by which a particle is lifted, on average, by an oscillating light field.
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What are the electric dipole selection rules?
You must change l by one and may change m_l at most by one.
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What is a complex electric field?
Despite being usually deemed unphyiscal, it can be used to describe circularly polarised light fields or light fields in the rotating frame.
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What is the kinematic momentum?
In a light field, this property of a particle might not be what it seems.
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What is Rabi cycling?
In the Bloch sphere, this process brings you straight from the north pole to the south pole and back again as many times as you want.
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What is the Lorentz force?
It pulls and pushes, but sometimes it also twists and turns its victims.
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What is a Volkov state?
When the spotlight is turned on, but no-one else is around, this is the state a particle will gladly stay in.
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What is the Kramers-Henneberger Frame?
In this frame, the Hamiltonian successfully transferred (almost) all his job to the wave function.
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What is a monochromatic light field?
Despite its name it is neither black nor white - in fact one might say it is almost the opposite.
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What is the self energy?
Even without anything quantum, this will still blow up a charged particle's energy if one is not careful.
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What is the transformation into the rotating frame?
In all honesty, this is just a fancy name for a transformation into the interaction picture.
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