Since the need for a third edition of this book has arisen, we have endeavoured to improve and extend it in several ways. At many places small changes were made, misprints have been corrected, and references have been added. In Chap. 5 new theoretical and experimental results on the Lamb shift in heavy atoms and on the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon are reported. We have also added a number of new topics in Chaps. 3, 5, and 7 in the form of examples and exercises. Example 3. 19 contains a detailed treatment of electron-positron pair production in the collision of a high-energy photon with a laser beam. This is supplemented by Exercise 3. 20 where a closed solution of the Dirac equation in the field of a plane wave is derived. Furthermore, Example 5. 4 on the running coupling constant in QED and Example 7. 6 on the supercritial point charge prob­ lem have been added. Finally, Example 7. 8 treats the birefringence of the QED vacuum in a strong magnetic field. We thank all colleagues and readers who have informed us about misprints in the book and are grateful to the team at Springer-Verlag for expertly handling the preparation of this new edition. Frankfurt am Main, Walter Greiner August 2002 Joachim Reinhardt Preface to the Second Edition The need for a second edition of our text on Quantum Electrodynamics has given us the opportunity to implement some corrections and amendments.

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Quantenelektrodynamik

Walter Greiner, J. Reinhardt, W. Greiner

Greiner, Walter, Reinhardt, Joachim

Joachim Reinhardt; Walter Greiner

Springer Spektrum. in Springer-Verlag GmbH

Steinkopff. in Springer-Verlag GmbH

Physics and astronomy online library, 3. ed. [completely rev. and corr, Berlin, 2003

Springer Nature (Textbooks & Major Reference Works), Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013

3rd ed., Berlin, New York, Germany, 2003

Germany, Germany

3rd, 2002-12-16

Springer -- 1

lg114036

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This completely revised and corrected new edition provides several new examples and exercises to enable deeper insight in formalism and application of Quantum electrodynamics. It is a thorough introductory text providing all necessary mathematical tools together with many examples and worked problems. In their presentation of the subject the authors adopt a heuristic approach based on the propagator formalism. The latter is introduced in the first two chapters in both its nonrelativistic and relativistic versions. Subsequently, a large number of scattering and radiation processes involving electrons, positrons, and photons are introduced and their theoretical treatment is presented in great detail. Higher order processes and renormalization are also included. The book concludes with a discussion of two-particle states and the interaction of spinless bosons.

"This completely revised and corrected new edition provides several new examples and exercises to enable deeper insight into the formalism and application of quantum electrodynamics. It is a thorough introductory text providing all necessary mathematical tools together with many examples and worked problems. In their presentation of the subject, the authors adopt a heuristic approach based on the propagator formalism. The latter is introduced in the first two chapters in both its nonrelativistic and its relativistic versions

Subsequently, a large number of scattering and radiation progresses involving electrons, positrons, and photons are introduced and their theoretical treatment is presented in great detail. Higher-order processes and renormalization are also included as is the quantum electrodynamics of strong fields. The book concludes with a discussion of two-particle states and the interaction of spinless bosons."--Cover

2009-08-06