Quantum Leaps and Bounds: Some Relativistic Quantum Fields
by
This volume of
QLB
gives an elementary introduction to the relativistic
quantum field theory of spinless bosons, photons, spin 1/2 fermions and
antifermions and to quantum electrodynamics.
PDF file (284 pages).
The table of contents of this
volume is:
- Introductory Remarks
- Spinless Bosons
- Boson creators and annihilators; commutation relations
- Poincare generators
- Scalar field
- Lagrangian method
- Photons
- Photon creators and annihilators; commutation relations
- Poincare generators
- Space inversion, time reversal, charge conjugation
- Transverse photons
- Vector field
- Quantum electric and magnetic fields
- Manifest covariance, gauge invariance, electromagnetic field tensor
- Lagrangian method
- Spin 1/2 Fermions and Antifermions
- Creators and annihilators; anticommutation relations
- Poincare generators
- Space inversion, time reversal, charge conjugation
- Historical interlude: Dirac's hole theory revisited
- Neutrinos and antineutrinos
- Dirac field
- Lagrangian method
- Quantum Electrodynamics
- Fundamental dynamical variables
- Field equations
- Lagrangian method