• DOI:10.5860/choice.32-1588
• Corpus ID: 118205241

Early Quantum Electrodynamics: A Source Book

@inproceedings{Miller1995EarlyQE,
  title={Early Quantum Electrodynamics: A Source Book},
  author={Arthur I. Miller},
  year={1995}
}

• Arthur I. Miller
• Published 27 October 1995
• Physics

Preface Notes to the Preface Acknowledgements Notes to the Reader 1. From quantum mechanics toward quantum electrodynamics 1.1. Niels Bohr's atomic theory, 1913-23 1.2. The coupling mechanism 1.3. Virtual oscillators 1.4. Quantum mechanics versus wave mechanics 1.5. Intrinsic symmetry 1.6. Transformation theory and word meanings 1.7. The uncertainty principle paper 1.8. Complementarity 1.9. Conclusion 2. Second quantization 2.1. Jordan's 1926 results 2.2. Dirac's quantization of the electromagnetic field 2.3. Jordan's quantization of bosons and fermions 2.4. Jordan and Pauli's relativistic quantization of charge-free electromagnetic fields 3. Photons and relativistic electrons 3.1. The Dirac equation 3.2. Heisenberg and Pauli on quantum electrodynamics, 1929 3.3. The electron's mass in classical and quantum electrodynamics 3.4. From negative energy states to positrons 4. Quantum electrodynamics 4.1. Measurement problems in a quantum theory of the electromagnetic field 4.2. Heisenberg's first attempt at a fundamental length 4.3. An 'intuitive' time-dependent perturbation theory 4.4. Multiple-time theory, hole theory and second quantization 4.5. Dirac at Solvay in 1933: vacuum polarization 4.6. The Heisenberg-Pauli collaboration on positron theory 4.7. The subtraction physics 4.7.1. Dirac defines the problem 4.7.2. Weisskopf's calculation of the electron's self-energy in hole theory 4.7.3. Beyond the correspondence principle 4.7.4. Heisenberg's formulation of subtraction physics 4.7.5. Some reactions to Heisenberg 4.8. Quantization of the Klein-Gordon equation: the Pauli-Weisskopf statistics.