1. Quantum Theory of Free Electromagnetic Fields 1.1 Maxwell's Equations 1.2 Electromagnetic Plane Waves 1.3 Quantization of Free Electromagnetic Fields 1.4 Eigenstates of Electromagnetic Fields 1.5 Coherent States (Glauber States) of Electromagnetic Fields 1.6 Biographical Notes 2. Interaction of Electromagnetic Fields with Matter 2.1 Emission of Radiation from an Excited Atom 2.2 Lifetime of an Excited State 2.3 Absorption of Photons 2.4 Photon Scattering from Free Electrons 2.5 Calculation of the Total Photon Scattering Cross Section . . 2.6 Cherenkov Radiation of a SchrSdinger Electron 2.7 Natural Linewidth and Self-energy 3. Noninteracting Fields 3.1 Spin-Statistics Theorem 3.2 Relationship Between Second Quantization and Elementary Quantum Mechanics 4. Quantum Fields with Interaction 5. Infinities in Quantum Electrodynamics: Renormalization Problems 5.1 Attraction of Parallel, Conducting Plates Due to Field Quantum Fluctuations (Casimir Effect) 5.2 Renormalization of the Electron Mass 5.3 The Splitting of the Hydrogen States 2sl/2-2p3/2: The Lamb Shift 5.4 Is There an Inconsistency in Bethe's Approach? 6. Nonrelativistic Quantum Field Theory of Interacting Particles and Its Applications 6.1 Quantum Gases 6.2 Nearly Ideal, Degenerate Bose-Einstein Gases 7. Superfluidity 7.1 Basics of a Microscopic Theory of Superfluidity 7.2 Landau's Theory of Superfluidity 8. Pair Correlations Among Fermions and Bosons 8.1 Pair-Correlation Function for Fermions 8.2 Pair-Correlation Function for Bosons 8.3 The Hanbury-Brown and Twiss Effect 8.4 Cooper Pairs 9. Quasiparticles in Plasmas and Metals: Selected Topics... 9.1 Plasmons and Phonons 10. Basics of Quantum Statistics 10.1 Concept of Quantum Statistics and the Notion of Entropy . 10.2 Density Operator of a Many-Particle State 10.3 Dynamics of a Quantum-Statistical Ensemble 10.4 Ordered and Disordered Systems: The Density Operator and Entropy 10.5 Stationary Ensembles 11. Structure of Atoms 11.1 Atoms with Two Electrons 11.2 The Hartree Method 11.3 Thomas-Fermi Method 11.4 The Hartree-Fock Method 11.5 On the Periodic System of the Elements 11.6 Splitting of Orbital Multiplets 11.7 Spin-Orbit Interaction 11.8 Treatment of the Spin-Orbit Splitting in the Hartree-Fock Approach 11.9 The Zeeman Effect . 11.10 Biographical Notes 12. Elementary Structure of Molecules 12.1 Born-Oppenheimer Approximation 12.2 The H+2 Ion as an Example 12.3 The Hydrogen Molecule 12.4 Electron Pairing 12.5 Spatially Oriented Orbits 12.6 Hybridization 12.7 Hydrocarbons 12.8 Biographical Notes 13. Feynman's Path Integral Formulation of Schrodinger's Wave Mechanics 13.1 Action Functional in Classical Mechanics and Schrodinger's Wave Mechanics 13.2 Transition Amplitude as a Path Integral 13.3 Path Integral Representation of the Schrodinger Propagator 13.4 Alternative Derivation of the Schrodinger Equation . . 13.5 Biographical Notes Subject Index