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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

Tommy Ohlsson
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KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
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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 Physics
From Advanced Quantum Mechanics to Introductory Quantum Field Theory
, pp. xi - xii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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  • Preface
  • Tommy Ohlsson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
  • Book: Relativistic Quantum Physics
  • Online publication: 05 June 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139032681.001
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  • Preface
  • Tommy Ohlsson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
  • Book: Relativistic Quantum Physics
  • Online publication: 05 June 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139032681.001
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  • Preface
  • Tommy Ohlsson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
  • Book: Relativistic Quantum Physics
  • Online publication: 05 June 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139032681.001
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