Light And Vacuum: The Wave-particle Nature Of The Light And The Quantum Vacuum Through The Coupling Of Electromagnetic Theory And Quantum Electrodynamics

Light and Vacuum presents a synthesis of selected fundamental topics of electromagnetic wave theory and quantum electrodynamics (QED) and analyzes the main theoretical difficulties encountered to ensure a coherent mathematical description of the simultaneous wave-particle nature of light, put in evidence by the experiments. The notion and the role of the quantum vacuum, strongly related to light, ...