Hello,

I wanted to ask if someone can summarize which physical processes can and can not be explained by classical and quantum light material interactio formalism?

I know that single photon experiments need full quantum description, also spontaneous emission is same, needs quantization of light to explain,

I know that Absorption can be explained full classically (electrons as harmonic oscillators and light as EM field that drives it),

So can someone summarize most well known (even less known if possible),

It is interesting to know how successful semiclassical approach is ( I heard that it explains nearly all processes)

thanks

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