Long-range Casimir Forces: Theory And Recent Experiments On Atomic Systems

Ch. 1. An Overview Of Long-range Casimir Interactions / Larry Spruch -- 2. Preliminaries: Some Relevant Aspects Of The Uncertainty Principle For Particles And For Fields -- 3. The Force Per Unit Area Between Two Infinite Plane Parallel Walls -- 4. A Simple Physical Derivation Of The Asymptotic Form Of The Retarded Potential For Two Finite Polarizable Systems -- 5. A Simple Physical Derivation Of The Asymptotic Form Of The Retarded Potential For A Finite Polarizable System And A Plane Wall -- 6. The Lamb Shift Of Hydrogen Versus The Retardation Energy Shift [delta]e[subscript Ret] Of Murium (an Electron Bound To A Wall) -- 8. On Referencing And Accreditation, And A Summary, All Very Biased -- Ch. 2. Experimental Studies Of High-l Rydberg States In Helium / S. R. Lundeen -- 2. Experiments -- 3. Discussion Of Results -- Ch. 3. High-precision Calculations For The Rydberg States Of Helium / G. W. F. Drake -- 2. Variational Calculations For Helium -- 3. Small Corrections -- 4. Results For Energy Levels And Discussion -- Appendix On Jacobi Coordinates -- Ch. 4. High Rydberg States Of Two-electron Atoms In Perturbation Theory / Richard J. Drachman -- 2. The Optical Potential -- 3. Some Mathematical Techniques -- 4. Evaluation Of The Nonrelativistic Energies -- 5. Nonrelativistic Energy Shifts And Their Accuracy -- 6. Relativistic Corrections: Application Of The Breit-pauli Operator -- 7. Comparison With Experiment And Future Developments -- Ch. 5. Long-range Electromagnetic Forces In Quantum Theory: Theoretical Foundations / Joseph Sucher And Gerald Feinberg -- 2. Time-ordered And Feynman Diagrams In Field Theory -- 3. The Techniques Of Dispersion Theory -- 4. Potentials From One-quantum And Two-quantum Exchange -- 5. Scalar Qed, Feynman Rules, And Compton Amplitudes -- 6. The Long-range Force Between Two Spin-0 Particles -- 7. The Long-range Force Between A Spin-0 And A Spin-1/2 Particle. Edited By Frank S. Levin And David A. Micha. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.