Selected Papers on Quantum Electrodynamics

by Schwinger, Julian

• ISBN13: 9780486604442
• ISBN10: 0486604446
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-07-17
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

How quantum electrodynamics evolved in the first quarter of the 20th century, revealed here by its creators in 34 papers by Foley, Fermi, Heisenberg, Dryson, Weisskopf, Oppenheimer, Pauli, Schwinger, Klein and other key figures. Twenty-nine are in English, three in German, one each in French and Italian. Preface. Historical commentary.

Author Biography

One of the great 20th-century physicists, Julian Schwinger (1918–94) is best remembered for his work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the very topic of this text. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965, along with Richard Feynman and Shinichiro Tomonaga, for their work on quantum electrodynamics.

Table of Contents

Preface

 

1. Dirac: The Quantum Theory of the Emission and Absorption of Radiation

2. Fermi: Sopra L'Ellettrodinamica Quantistca

3. Dirac, Fock, Podolsky: On Quantum Electrodynamics

4. Jorda, Wigner: Uber Das Paulische Aquivalenzverbot

5. Heisenberg: Uber Die Mit Der Enstehung von Materie aus Strahlung Verknupften Ladungsschwankungen

6. Weisskopf: On the Self-Energy and the Electromagnetic Field of the Electron

7. Dirac: Theorie du Positron

8. Weisskopf: Uber die Electrodynamik des Vakuums auf Grund der Quatentheorie desEelektrons

9. Bloch, Nordsieck: Notes on the Radiation Field of the Electron

10. Foley, Kusch: On the Intrinsic Moment of the Electron

11. Lamb, Retherford: Fine Structure of the Hydrogen Atom by a Microwave Method

12. Bethe: The Electromagnetic Shift of Energy Levels

13. Schwinger: On Quantum-Electrodynamics and the Magnetic Moment of the Electron

14. Schwinger: On Radiative Corrections to Electron Scattering

15. Oppenheimer: Electron Theory

16. Tomonaga: On a Relativistically Invariant Formulation of the Quantum Theory of Wave Fields

17. Schwinger: Quantum Electrodynamics, III: The Electromagnetic Properties of the Electron--Radiative Corrections to Scattering

18. Tomonaga: On Infinite Field Reactions in Quantum Field Theory

19. Pauli, Villars: On the Invariant Regularization in Relativistic Quantum Theory

20. Schwinger: On Gauge Invariance and Vacuum Polarization

21. Feynman: The Theory of Positrons

22. Feynman: Space-Time Approach to Quantum Electrodynamics

23. Feynman: Mathematical Formulations of the Quantum Theory of Electromagnetic Interaction

24, Dyson: The Radiation Theories of Tomonaga, Scwinger, and Feynman

25. Dyson: The S Matix in Quantum Electrodynamics

26. Dirac: The Lagrangian in Quantum Mechanics

27. Feynman: Space-Time Approach to Non-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics

28. Schwinger: The Theory of Quantized Fields, I

29. Schwinger: The Theory of Quantized Fields, II

30. Pauli: The Connection Between Spin and Statistics

31.Schwinger: On the Green's Functions of Quantized Fields, I

32. Karplus, Klein: Electrodynamic Displacement of Atomic Energy Levels, III: The Hyperfine Structure of Positronium

33. Kallen: On the Magnitude of the Renormalization Constants in Quantum Electrodynamics

34. Kroll, Lamb: On the Self-Energy of a Bound Electron