Interaction of Ultrashort Electromagnetic Pulses with Matter

The book is devoted to the theory describing the interaction of  ultra-short electromagnetic pulses (USP) with matter, including both classical and quantum cases. This theme is a hot topic in modern physics because of the great achievements in genera

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Editorial Board Egor Babaev, University of Massachusetts, USA Malcolm Bremer, University of Bristol, UK Xavier Calmet, University of Sussex, UK Francesca Di Lodovico, Queen Mary University of London, UK Maarten Hoogerland, Universiy of Auckland, New Zealand Eric Le Ru, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand James Overduin, Towson University, USA Vesselin Petkov, Concordia University, Canada Charles H.-T. Wang, University of Aberdeen, UK Andrew Whitaker, Queen’s University Belfast, UK

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Valeriy Astapenko

Interaction of Ultrashort Electromagnetic Pulses with Matter

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Valeriy Astapenko Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Moscow Russia

ISSN 2191-5423 ISBN 978-3-642-35968-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-35969-9

ISSN 2191-5431 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-642-35969-9 (eBook)

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Preface

This book is devoted to the theory of interactions between ultrashort electromagnetic pulses (USPs) and matter, including both the classical and quantum cases. This is a hot topic in modern physics thanks to significant progress in generating and shaping USPs over