• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.720-726
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• 1999

It has been proved by the semi-classical gauge invariant formulation (GIF) that the correct interaction operator for coupling the field-free material states with the radiation field must be the position form regardless of the gauge chosen for expressing the electromagnetic potentials, in accordance with the well-established principle of gauge invariance. The semi-classical GIF is now extended to the quantized radiation field interacting with matter by defining the energy operator for the quantized radiation field in the presence of matter. It will be shown in this paper that the use of the energy operator guarantees the position form of the interaction operator even in the Coulomb gauge, contrary to the conventional approach in which the dark material Hamiltonian is used to get the interaction operator of the momentum form. The multipolar Hamiltonian is examined in the context of the quantum mechanical gauge transformation.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.405-413
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• 2001

The inverse boundary value problem for the steady state heat equation with convection term is considered in a simply connected bounded domain with smooth boundary. Taking the Dirichlet to Neumann map which maps the temperature on the boundary to the that flux on the boundary as an observation data, the global uniqueness for identifying the convection term from the Dirichlet to Neumann map is proved.