Relativistic quantum mechanics.

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Author / Creator:Pilkuhn, Hartmut M.
Edition:2nd ed.
Imprint:Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2005.
Description:x, 278 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Texts and monographs in physics
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5774896
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ISBN:3540255028
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Maxwell and Schrödinger
  • 1.1. Light and Linear Operators
  • 1.2. De Broglies Idea and Schrödingers Equation
  • 1.3. Potentials and Gauge Invariance
  • 1.4. Stationary Potentials, Zeeman Shifts
  • 1.5. Bound States
  • 1.6. Spinless Hydrogenlike Atoms
  • 1.7. Landau Levels and Harmonic Oscillator
  • 1.8. Orthogonality and Measurements
  • 1.9. Operator Methods, Matrices
  • 1.10. Scattering and Phase Shifts
  • 2. Lorentz, Pauli and Dirac
  • 2.1. Lorentz Transformations
  • 2.2. Spinless Current, Density of States
  • 2.3. Pauli's Electron Spin
  • 2.4. The Dirac Equation
  • 2.5. Addition of Angular Momenta
  • 2.6. Hydrogen Atom and Parity Basis
  • 2.7. Alternative Form, Perturbations
  • 2.8. The Pauli Equation
  • 2.9. The Zeeman Effect
  • 2.10. The Dirac Current. Free Electrons
  • 3. Quantum Fields and Particles
  • 3.1. The Photon Field
  • 3.2. C, P and T
  • 3.3. Field Operators and Wave Equations
  • 3.4. Breit Operators
  • 3.5. Two-Electron States and Pauli Principle
  • 3.6. Elimination of Components
  • 3.7. Brown-Ravenhall Disease, Energy Projectors, Improved Breitian
  • 3.8. Variational Method, Shell Model
  • 3.9. The Pauli Principle for Three Electrons
  • 4. Scattering and Bound States
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Born Series and S-Matrix
  • 4.3. Two-body Scattering and Decay
  • 4.4. Current Matrix Elements, Form Factors
  • 4.5. Particles of Higher Spins
  • 4.6. The Equation for Spinless Binaries
  • 4.7. The Leptonium Equation
  • 4.8. The Interactionin Leptonium
  • 4.9. Binary Boosts
  • 4.10. Klein-Dirac Equation, Hydrogen
  • 4.11. Dirac Structures of Binary Bound States
  • 5. Hyperfine Shifts, Radiation, Quarks
  • 5.1. First-Order Magnetic Hyperfine Splitting
  • 5.2. Nonrelativistic Magnetic Hyperfine Operators
  • 5.3. Vacuum Polarization, Dispersion Relations
  • 5.4. Atomic Radiation
  • 5.5. Soft Photons, Lamb Shift
  • 5.6. Antiprotonic Atoms, Quadrupole Potential
  • 5.7. The Magnetic Moment Interaction
  • 5.8. SU 2 ,SU 3 , Quarks
  • 5.9. Baryon Magnetic Moments
  • A. Orthonormality and Expectation Values
  • B. Coulomb Greens Functions
  • C. Yukawa Expectation Values
  • Bibliography
  • Index