Nonrelativistic Quantum X-Ray Physics (eBook)

Stefan Hau-Riege is the X-ray Science and Technology Group Leader at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), where he works on x-ray free-electron-laser interactions with materials, x-ray instrumentation, and ultrafast imaging, drawing on computational and experimental physics. Previously, he worked on extreme-ultraviolet lithography and laser-assisted recrystallization. Dr. Hau-Riege received his Ph.D. in materials science from the MIT in 2000, and a M.S. in solid-state physics and applied mathematics from the University of Hamburg, Germany. He has authored and co-authored more than 100 scientific journal publications, and is co-inventor of more than 20 patents.

I. Introduction
1. Introduction
2. Review of Some Concepts in Quantum Mechanics

II. Quantization of the Free Electromagnetic Field
3. Classical Electromagnetic Fields
4. Harmonic Oscillator
5. Quantization of the Electromagnetic Field
6. Continuous Fock Space
7. Coherence
8. Examples for Electromagnetic States

III. Interaction of X-rays with Matter
9. Interaction of the Electromagnetic Field with Matter
10. Time-dependent Perturbation Theory
11. Application of Perturbation Theory to the Interaction of Electromagnetic Fields with Matter

IV. Applications of X-ray?Matter-Interaction Theory
12. X-ray Scattering by Free Electrons
13. Radiative Atomic Bound-bound Transitions
14. One-photon Photoionization
15. Bremsstrahlung
16. X-ray Scattering
17. Relaxation Processes
18. Multiphoton Photoionization
19. Threshold Phenomena