The first such book devoted exclusively to the MQED theory of long-range intermolecular forces, this resource gives the first presentation of the second quantized Maxwell field formulation of the theory. The coverage includes recently developed non-perturbative approaches for treating a variety of intermolecular interactions. It also provides a comprehensive treatment of discriminatory forces and their subsequent modification by a radiation field. This provides an essential resource for theoretical and physical chemists; atomic, molecular, and optical physicists; as well as biophysicists, materials scientists, and nanochemists.

Akbar Salam, BSc, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was previously the 21st Century Center of Excellence Guest Professor at Kyoto University, Japan, and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is a recipient of the University College London's Harry Poole Prize in Physical Chemistry and the Wiley International Journal of Quantum Chemistry Young Investigator Award. Currently, he is the Ollen R. Nalley Faculty Fellow at Wake Forest University.