Advances In Quantum Electrodynamics Fundamentals: From The Electromagnetic Vacuum To Cosmology
Author(s): Meis Constantin (Author)
- Publisher: WSPC
- Publication Date: April 30, 2026
- Language: English
- Print length: 212 pages
- ISBN-10: 9819826659
- ISBN-13: 9789819826650
Book Description
“It is a privilege to introduce this thoughtful and ambitious work on quantum electrodynamics, written by a colleague whose curiosity and rigor continually push our field forward. As an experimentalist working to reveal the electric field of a single photon, I find in these pages a deep and meaningful dialogue between theory and measurement. The author brings welcome clarity to long-standing conceptual questions surrounding wave–particle duality and the nature of light. This book encourages us to reconsider what a photon truly represents and how its properties shape the physical world. It is an inspiring contribution for the years ahead!” François Blanchard Professor Ecole de Technologie Supérieure, Montreal, Canada “This short collection of articles proposes a revolutionary change, advancing basic Quantum Electrodynamics to a level beyond imagination. The approach cleverly connects photon vector potential and frequency that clearly explains photon wavefunction and vacuum energy in a genius way. Furthermore, these short articles indicating that gravitational force could be an electromagnetic force may explain many unresolved phenomena.” Ahmed Hassanein Distinguished Professor of Nuclear Engineering, Purdue University, USA As a continuity to Light & Vacuum 2nd Edition, the book Advances in Quantum Electrodynamics Fundamentals consists of a collection of selected papers published in various peer reviewed journals, extended and completed. The link among all these publications is the progressive improvement and refinement of the QED theory fundamentals pertaining the electromagnetic field Hamiltonian, the quantum vacuum, the photon vector potential quantization and the corresponding operator, the photon electric and magnetic fields amplitudes, the photon wave function and finally the relationship to the quantum vacuum. No postulates and no axioms are stated. The whole mathematical developments issue directly from classical and quantum electromagnetic theory drawn on the experimental evidence. A photon quantum equation involving both the first and second quantization of the electromagnetic field, as well as a real photon wave function based on the quantization of the vector potential are established for the first time. The relationship between the electron-positron elementary charge and the single photon vector potential amplitude appears naturally during the second quantization process of the electromagnetic field putting the basis for understanding the physical mechanisms for the mutual transformations: electron + positron <=> gamma photons. Finally, it is shown that photons and particles/antiparticles all issue from the electromagnetic vacuum entailing the introduction of new concepts in particle physics, gravitation and cosmology.
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Review
“It is a privilege to introduce this thoughtful and ambitious work on quantum electrodynamics, written by a colleague whose curiosity and rigor continually push our field forward. As an experimentalist working to reveal the electric field of a single photon, I find in these pages a deep and meaningful dialogue between theory and measurement. The author brings welcome clarity to long-standing conceptual questions surrounding wave–particle duality and the nature of light. This book encourages us to reconsider what a photon truly represents and how its properties shape the physical world. It is an inspiring contribution for the years ahead!”
François Blanchard Professor Ecole de Technologie Supérieure, Montreal, Canada
“This short collection of articles proposes a revolutionary change, advancing basic Quantum Electrodynamics to a level beyond imagination. The approach cleverly connects photon vector potential and frequency that clearly explains photon wavefunction and vacuum energy in a genius way. Furthermore, these short articles indicating that gravitational force could be an electromagnetic force may explain many unresolved phenomena.”
Ahmed Hassanein Distinguished Professor of Nuclear Engineering, Purdue University, USA
About the Author
Constantin Meis is Professor at the National Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology and Research Director at the CEA (Atomic Energy Commission – Saclay, France). He is member of the editorial board of the journal Radiation (MDPI), Switzerland.
He studied physics at the University Paris 7 where he obtained in 1984 the “Maitrise de Physique”, with specialization in Atomic and Nuclear Physics. Then he got the Master Degree (DEA) in Atomic Physics & Quantum Optics at Orsay University (Paris Sud) in 1985. He is holder of PhD in Atomic Physics obtained also at Orsay University in 1988 and of HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) obtained at Marseille University in 2003.
After his PhD thesis he started his career in 1988 as physicist at the CEA Saclay working on theoretical studies on computational modelling of the electromagnetic waves propagation and absorption in plasmas. In 2001 he took the head of the Physics and Materials Unit of the National Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology where he became Professor and then Research Director.
His main fields of scientific interest actually are the foundations of quantum electrodynamics theory, the nature of single photons, the quantum vacuum as well as the relationship between photons, electrons and positrons.
He published more than a hundred papers, he is the author of the book Light & Vacuum 2nd Edition (World Scientific 2017), he is co-editor of the book Fundamentals of Thermodynamic Modelling of Materials published by EPJ – Web of Conferences and he is author of the Chapter “Quantized Field of Single Photons” in Single Photon Manipulation, Ed. Prof. Keyu Xia, Nanjing University, China. IntechOpen, London 2019.
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