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Physics Bulletin

The Quantum Theory of Light (2nd edn) Rodney

Bernard F. Buxton

Published Apr 1, 1984• 0 citations
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Loudon 1983 Oxford: Oxford University Press xiv + 393 pp price £30 (£15 paperback) ISBN 0 19 851152 3 Hdbk, 0 19 851155 8 Pbk Occasionally I have heard the remark from fellow scientists that physics has become so abstruse that most physicists themselves do not understand their own fundamental theories – meaning, of course, quantum field theory. Here at last is a book to redress the balance, at least as far as the quantum theory of light is concerned.

DOI
10.1088/0031-9112/35/4/032

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