Background
Persico, Francesco Saverio was born on September 27, 1938 in Palermo, Italy. Son of Nicola and Angela (Monroy) Persico.
(The interaction between atoms and electromagnetic fields ...)
The interaction between atoms and electromagnetic fields is an area of central importance to the investigation of fundamental concepts of quantum mechanics. The authors provide an introduction to the theory concerning this interaction by describing the different forms of the interaction and dealing with how these interactions lead to the formation of dressed states, in the presence of vacuum fluctuations as well as in the presence of external fields. They also cover the role of dressed atoms in quantum measurement theory and the physical interpretation of vacuum radiative effects. Treating a key field on the boundary between quantum optics and quantum electrodynamics, the book will be of great use to graduate students, as well as to established experimentalists and theorists, in either of these areas.
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Persico, Francesco Saverio was born on September 27, 1938 in Palermo, Italy. Son of Nicola and Angela (Monroy) Persico.
Maturita Classica, Institute Gonzaga, Palermo, Italy, 1956; Laurea in Fisica, U. Di Palermo, Palermo, Italy, 1961.
Assistant professor, U. di Palermo, Italy, 1961-1964; lecturer, U. di Palermo, Italy, 1966-1976; professor, U. di Palermo, Italy, since 1976. Director Institute di Fisica Dell University, Palermo, 1990-1994, dean physics faculty, since 1994. Group member International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, since 1991.
(The interaction between atoms and electromagnetic fields ...)
Member Society Italiana di Fisica, American Physical Society, New York Academy of Sciences.
Married Lotti De Sarzana, June 14, 1966. Children: Nicola, Giuseppe, Angela.