Early quantum electrodynamics : a source book /

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Author / Creator:Miller, Arthur I.
Imprint:Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge, 1994.
Description:xix, 265 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1506315
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ISBN:0521431697
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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505 0 0 |g I.  |t Frame-setting essay.  |g 1.  |t From quantum mechanics toward quantum electrodynamics.  |g 1.1.  |t Niels Bohr's atomic theory, 1913-23.  |g 1.2.  |t The coupling mechanism.  |g 1.3.  |t Virtual oscillators.  |g 1.4.  |t Quantum mechanics versus wave mechanics.  |g 1.5.  |t Intrinsic symmetry.  |g 1.6.  |t Transformation theory and word meanings.  |g 1.7.  |t The uncertainty principle paper.  |g 1.8.  |t Complementarity.  |g 2.  |t Second quantization.  |g 2.1.  |t Jordan's 1926 results.  |g 2.2.  |t Dirac's quantization of the electromagnetic field.  |g 2.3.  |t Jordan's quantization of bosons and fermions.  |g 2.4.  |t Jordan and Pauli's relativistic quantization of charge-free electromagnetic fields.  |g 3.  |t Photons and relativistic electrons.  |g 3.1.  |t The Dirac equation.  |g 3.2.  |t Heisenberg and Pauli on quantum electrodynamics, 1929.  |g 3.3.  |t The electron's mass in classical and quantum electrodynamics.  |g 3.4.  |t From negative energy states to positrons.  |g 4.  |t Quantum electrodynamics.  |g 4.1.  |t Measurement problems in a quantum theory of the electromagnetic field.  |g 4.2.  |t Heisenberg's first attempt at a fundamental length.  |g 4.3.  |t An 'intuitive' time-dependent perturbation theory.  |g 4.4.  |t Multiple-time theory, hole theory and second quantization.  |g 4.5.  |t Dirac at Solvay in 1933: vacuum polarization.  |g 4.6.  |t The Heisenberg-Pauli collaboration on positron theory.  |g 4.7.  |t The subtraction physics.  |g 4.8.  |t Quantization of the Klein-Gordon equation: the Pauli-Weisskopf theory.  |g 4.9.  |t Toward a connection between spin and statistics.  |g 4.10.  |t The connection between spin and statistics.  |g 4.11.  |t Return to 1934.  |g 4.12.  |t Light-light scattering.  |g 4.13.  |t Weisskopf and vacuum polarization: a new statement about infinities.  |g 4.14.  |t Some other approaches to quantum electrodynamics: cosmic ray physics, nonlinear theories and the lattice world (Gitterwelt).  |g 4.15.  |t The fundamental length.  |g 4.16.  |t The infrared catastrophe.  |g 5.  |t Theories of the nuclear force in the 1930s.  |g 5.1.  |t Heisenberg invents exchange forces in nuclear physics: the metaphor of forces transmitted by particles.  |g 5.2.  |t Ettore Majorana's nuclear theory.  |g 5.3.  |t Discussion at Solvay in 1933.  |g 5.4.  |t Enrico Fermi's theory of [Beta]-decay.  |g 5.5.  |t [Beta]-Decay and the nuclear force.  |g 5.6.  |t Hideki Yukawa's theory of the nuclear force: metaphor becomes physical reality --  |g II.  |t Selected papers.  |g 1.  |t The self-energy of the electron /  |r W. Heisenberg.  |g 2.  |t Remarks on radiation theory /  |r W. Heisenberg.  |g 3.  |t Theory of the positron /  |r P. A. M. Dirac.  |g 4.  |t Discussion of the infinite distribution of electrons in the theory of the positron /  |r P. A. M. Dirac.  |g 5.  |t The self-energy of the electron /  |r V. Weisskopf.  |g 6.  |t Remarks on the Dirac theory of the positron /  |r W. Heisenberg.  |g 7.  |t The quantization of the scalar relativistic wave equation /  |r W. Pauli and V. Weisskopf.  |g 8.  |t The electrodynamics of the vacuum based on the quantum theory of the electron /  |r V. Weisskopf.  |g 9.  |t Theory of the emission of long-wave light quanta /  |r W. Pauli and M. Fierz.  |g 10.  |t The universal length appearing in the theory of elementary particles /  |r W. Heisenberg.  |g 11.  |t The interaction between charged particles and the radiation field /  |r H. A. Kramers. 
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