Quantum electrodynamics
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Quantum electrodynamics
Springer, c2009
4th ed
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Quantenelektrodynamik
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Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University基物研
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The Institute for Solid State Physics Library. The University of Tokyo.図書室
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"Title of the original German edition: Theoretische Physik, Band 7: Quantenelektrodynamik, 2., überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage 1994"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
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We are pleased by the positive resonance of our book which now necessitates a fourth edition. We have used this opportunity to implement corrections of misprints and amendments at several places, and to extend and improve the discussion of many of the exercises and examples. We hope that our presentation of the method of equivalent photons (Example 3. 17), the form factor of the electron (Example 5. 7), the infrared catastrophe (Example 5. 8) and the energy shift of atomic levels (Example 5. 9)arenow even better to understand. The new Exercise 5. 10 shows in detail how to arrive at the non-relativistic limit for the calculation of form factors. Moreover, we have brought up-to-date the Biographical Notes about physicists who have contributed to the dev- opment of quantum electrodynamics, and references to experimental tests of the t- ory. For example, there has been recent progress in the determination of the electric and magnetic form factors of the proton (discussed in Exercise 3. 5 on the Rosenbluth formula) and the Lamb shift of high-Z atoms (discussed in Example 5. 9 on the energy shift of atomic levels), while the experimental veri cation of the birefringence of the QED vacuum in a strong magnetic eld (Example 7. 8) remains unsettled and is a topic of active ongoing research.
Table of Contents
Propagators and Scattering Theory.- The Propagators for Electrons and Positrons.- Quantum-Electrodynamical Processes.- Summary: The Feynman Rules of QED.- The Scattering Matrix in Higher Orders.- Two-Particle Systems.- Quantum Electrodynamics of Strong Fields.- Quantum Electrodynamics of Spinless Bosons.
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