Advanced Quantum Mechanics

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Freeman J Dyson (Inst For Advanced Study, Princeton, Usa) David Derbes (Lab Schools, Univ Of Chicago, Usa)

Advanced Quantum Mechanics

Freeman J Dyson (Inst For Advanced Study, Princeton, Usa), David Derbes (Lab Schools, Univ Of Chicago, Usa)

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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
28 November 2011

Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory)

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.

By: Freeman J Dyson (Inst For Advanced Study Princeton Usa)
Translated by: David Derbes (Lab Schools Univ Of Chicago Usa)
Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Country of Publication: Singapore
Edition: Second Edition
Dimensions: Height: 249mm, Width: 170mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9789814383400
ISBN 10: 9814383406
Pages: 316
Publication Date: 28 November 2011
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

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.