Quantum Electrodynamics,9780201360752

Quantum Electrodynamics

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780201360752
ISBN10: 0201360756
Format: Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date: 1971-01-01
Publisher(s): CRC Press
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Summary

This classic work presents the main results and calculational procedures of quantum electrodynamics in a simple and straightforward way. Designed for the student of experimental physics who does not intend to take more advanced graduate courses in theoretical physics, the material consists of notes on the third of a three-semester course given at the California Institute of Technology.

Author Biography

Richard P. Feynman was raised in Far Rockaway, New York, and received his Ph.D. from Princeton. He held professorships at both Cornell and the California Institute of Technology. In 1965 he received the Nobel Prize for his work on quantum electrodynamics. He died in 1988.

Table of Contents

Editor's Foreword v(2)
Preface vii
Interaction of Light with Matter--Quantum Electrodynamics
3(20)
Discussion of Fermi's method
3(1)
Laws of Quantum electrodynamics
4(19)
Resume of the Principles and Results of Special Relativity
23(11)
Solution of the Maxwell equation in empty space
28(2)
Relativistic particle mechanics
30(4)
Relativistic Wave Equation
34(22)
Units
34(1)
Klein-Gordon, Pauli, and Dirac equations
34(6)
Algebra of the Gamma matrices
40(4)
Equivalence transformation
44(1)
Relativistic invariance
44(1)
Hamiltonian form of the Dirac equation
45(5)
Nonrelativistic approximation to the Dirac equation
50(6)
Solution of the Dirac Equation for a Free Particle
56(15)
Definition of the spin of a moving electron
60(2)
Normalization of the wave functions
62(3)
Methods of obtaining matrix elements
65(1)
Interpretation of negative energy states
66(5)
Potential Problems in Quantum Electrodynamics
71(20)
Pair creation and annihilation
71(1)
Conservation of energy
72(1)
The propagation kernel
72(4)
Use of the kernel K(+) (2, 1)
76(1)
Transition probablility
77(1)
Scattering of an electron from a coulomb potential
78(3)
Calculation of the propagation kernel for a free particle
81(6)
Momentum representation
87(4)
Relativistic Treatment of the Interaction of Particles with Light
91(27)
Radiation from atoms
92(1)
Scattering of gamma rays by atomic electrons
92(2)
Digression on the density of final states
94(1)
Compton radiation
95(9)
Two-photon pair annihilation
104(2)
Positron annihilation from rest
106(1)
Bremsstrahlung
107(4)
Pair production
111(1)
A method of summing matrix elements over spin states
112(3)
Effects of screening of the coulomb field in atoms
115(3)
Interaction of Several Electron
118(10)
Derivation of the "rules" of quantum electrodynamics
122(2)
Electron-electron scattering
124(4)
Discussion and Interpretation of Various "Correction" Terms
128(34)
Electron-electron interaction
128(3)
Electron-positron interaction
131(1)
Positronium
132(2)
Two-photon exchange between electrons and/or positrons
134(1)
Self-energy of the electron
135(4)
Method of integration of integrals appearing in quantum electrodynamics
139(1)
Self-energy integral with an external potential
140(2)
Scattering in an external potential
142(8)
Resolution of the fictitious "infared catastrophe"
150(2)
Another approach to the infared difficulty
152(1)
Effect on an atomic electron
153(4)
Closed-loop processes, vacuum polarization
157(2)
Scattering of light by a potential
159(3)
Pauli Principle and the Dirac Equation
162(3)
Reprints 165
Summary of Numerical Factors for Transition Probabilities. Phys. Rev., 84, 123 (1951) 165(2)
The Theory of Positrons. Phys. Rev., 76, 749-759 (1949) 167(11)
Space-Time Approach to Quantum Electrodynamics. Phys. Rev., 76, 769-789 (1949) 178

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