
Advanced Quantum Mechanics
Freeman J. Dyson(Author)
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Published on 28. November 2011
Book
Hardback
316 pages
978-981-4383-40-0 (ISBN)
Description
Renowned physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson is famous for his work in quantum mechanics, nuclear weapons policy and bold visions for the future of humanity. In the 1940s, he was responsible for demonstrating the equivalence of the two formulations of quantum electrodynamics - Richard Feynman's diagrammatic path integral formulation and the variational methods developed by Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonoga - showing the mathematical consistency of QED.This invaluable volume comprises the legendary lectures on quantum electrodynamics first given by Dyson at Cornell University in 1951. The late theorist Edwin Thompson Jaynes once remarked, "For a generation of physicists they were the happy medium: clearer and better motivated than Feynman, and getting to the point faster than Schwinger".This edition has been printed on the 60th anniversary of the Cornell lectures, and includes a foreword by science historian David Kaiser, as well as notes from Dyson's lectures at the Les Houches Summer School of Theoretical Physics in 1954. The Les Houches lectures, described as a supplement to the original Cornell notes, provide a more detailed look at field theory, a careful and rigorous derivation of Fermi's Golden Rule, and a masterful treatment of renormalization and Ward's Identity.Future generations of physicists are bound to read these lectures with pleasure, benefiting from the lucid style that is so characteristic of Dyson's exposition.
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Edition
Second Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Physicists, graduate and undergraduate students
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
727 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-4383-40-0 (9789814383400)
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Freeman J. Dyson
Advanced Quantum Mechanics
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
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Author
Inst For Advanced Study, Princeton, Usa
Translation
Lab Schools, Univ Of Chicago, Usa
Content
The Dirac Theory; Scattering Problems and Born Approximation; Field Theory; Examples of Quantized Field Theories; Free Particle Scattering Problems; General Theory of Free Particle Scattering; Scattering by a Static Potential. Comparison with Experimental Results; Les Houches Lectures: Particle Mechanics and Field Mechanics; On the Relation between Scattering Matrix Elements and Cross-Sections; Renormalization.