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100
What is the dipole approximation?
When the wavelength is long, this can be used without any problems.
100
What is the electric charge?
This is the one thing, magnetism is truly jealous of.
100
What is the length gauge?
From a classical perspective, this gauge is the most direct way to describe light-matter interaction.
200
What is a gauge transformation?
This can make calculations shorter and even potentials disappear.
200
What is the ponderomotive energy.
This is the amount of energy by which a particle is lifted, on average, by an oscillating light field.
200
What are the electric dipole selection rules?
You must change l by one and may change m_l at most by one.
300
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.
300
What is the kinematic momentum?
In a light field, this property of a particle might not be what it seems.
300
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.
400
What is the Lorentz force?
It pulls and pushes, but sometimes it also twists and turns its victims.
400
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.
400
What is the Kramers-Henneberger Frame?
In this frame, the Hamiltonian successfully transferred (almost) all his job to the wave function.
500
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.
500
What is the self energy?
Even without anything quantum, this will still blow up a charged particle's energy if one is not careful.
500
What is the transformation into the rotating frame?
In all honesty, this is just a fancy name for a transformation into the interaction picture.






Light-Matter Interaction Part I

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