Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction to relativistic quantum mechanics
- 2 The Klein–Gordon equation
- 3 The Dirac equation
- 4 Quantization of the non-relativistic string
- 5 Introduction to relativistic quantum field theory: propagators, interactions, and all that
- 6 Quantization of the Klein–Gordon field
- 7 Quantization of the Dirac field
- 8 Maxwell's equations and quantization of the electromagnetic field
- 9 The electromagnetic Lagrangian and introduction to Yang–Mills theory
- 10 Asymptotic fields and the LSZ formalism
- 11 Perturbation theory
- 12 Elementary processes of quantum electrodynamics
- 13 Introduction to regularization, renormalization, and radiative corrections
- Appendix A A brief survey of group theory and its notation
- Bibliography
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction to relativistic quantum mechanics
- 2 The Klein–Gordon equation
- 3 The Dirac equation
- 4 Quantization of the non-relativistic string
- 5 Introduction to relativistic quantum field theory: propagators, interactions, and all that
- 6 Quantization of the Klein–Gordon field
- 7 Quantization of the Dirac field
- 8 Maxwell's equations and quantization of the electromagnetic field
- 9 The electromagnetic Lagrangian and introduction to Yang–Mills theory
- 10 Asymptotic fields and the LSZ formalism
- 11 Perturbation theory
- 12 Elementary processes of quantum electrodynamics
- 13 Introduction to regularization, renormalization, and radiative corrections
- Appendix A A brief survey of group theory and its notation
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This book is based on my lectures in the course ‘Relativistic Quantum Physics’ at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. These lectures have been given four times during the academic years 2006–2007, 2007–2008, 2008–2009, and 2009–2010. The main sources of inspiration for the lectures were the books A. Z. Capri, Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, World Scientific (2002) and M. E. Peskin and D. V. Schroeder, An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, Addison-Wesley (1995), and indeed, this book serves as a textbook for relativistic quantum mechanics with continuation to basic quantum field theory. The book is mainly intended for final-year undergraduate students in physics or first-year graduate students in physics and/or theoretical physics, who want to learn relativistic quantum mechanics, the basics of quantum field theory, and the techniques of calculating cross-sections for elementary reactions in quantum electrodynamics. Thus, the book should be suitable for any course on relativistic quantum mechanics as well as it might be suitable for a beginners' course on quantum field theory. In summary, the book is a self-contained technical treatment on relativistic quantum mechanics, introductory quantum field theory, and the step in between, i.e. it should fill the gap between advanced quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, which I have called relativistic quantum physics. It contains a thorough and detailed mathematical treatment of the subject with smaller exercises throughout the whole text and larger problems at the end of most chapters.
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- Relativistic Quantum PhysicsFrom Advanced Quantum Mechanics to Introductory Quantum Field Theory, pp. xi - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011