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Tables of Contents for Quantum Electrodynamics
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Editor's Foreword
v
2
Preface
vii
Interaction of Light with Matter--Quantum Electrodynamics
3
20
Discussion of Fermi's method
3
1
Laws of Quantum electrodynamics
4
19
Resume of the Principles and Results of Special Relativity
23
11
Solution of the Maxwell equation in empty space
28
2
Relativistic particle mechanics
30
4
Relativistic Wave Equation
34
22
Units
34
1
Klein-Gordon, Pauli, and Dirac equations
34
6
Algebra of the Gamma matrices
40
4
Equivalence transformation
44
1
Relativistic invariance
44
1
Hamiltonian form of the Dirac equation
45
5
Nonrelativistic approximation to the Dirac equation
50
6
Solution of the Dirac Equation for a Free Particle
56
15
Definition of the spin of a moving electron
60
2
Normalization of the wave functions
62
3
Methods of obtaining matrix elements
65
1
Interpretation of negative energy states
66
5
Potential Problems in Quantum Electrodynamics
71
20
Pair creation and annihilation
71
1
Conservation of energy
72
1
The propagation kernel
72
4
Use of the kernel K(+) (2, 1)
76
1
Transition probablility
77
1
Scattering of an electron from a coulomb potential
78
3
Calculation of the propagation kernel for a free particle
81
6
Momentum representation
87
4
Relativistic Treatment of the Interaction of Particles with Light
91
27
Radiation from atoms
92
1
Scattering of gamma rays by atomic electrons
92
2
Digression on the density of final states
94
1
Compton radiation
95
9
Two-photon pair annihilation
104
2
Positron annihilation from rest
106
1
Bremsstrahlung
107
4
Pair production
111
1
A method of summing matrix elements over spin states
112
3
Effects of screening of the coulomb field in atoms
115
3
Interaction of Several Electron
118
10
Derivation of the "rules" of quantum electrodynamics
122
2
Electron-electron scattering
124
4
Discussion and Interpretation of Various "Correction" Terms
128
34
Electron-electron interaction
128
3
Electron-positron interaction
131
1
Positronium
132
2
Two-photon exchange between electrons and/or positrons
134
1
Self-energy of the electron
135
4
Method of integration of integrals appearing in quantum electrodynamics
139
1
Self-energy integral with an external potential
140
2
Scattering in an external potential
142
8
Resolution of the fictitious "infared catastrophe"
150
2
Another approach to the infared difficulty
152
1
Effect on an atomic electron
153
4
Closed-loop processes, vacuum polarization
157
2
Scattering of light by a potential
159
3
Pauli Principle and the Dirac Equation
162
3
Reprints
165
Summary of Numerical Factors for Transition Probabilities. Phys. Rev., 84, 123 (1951)
165
2
The Theory of Positrons. Phys. Rev., 76, 749-759 (1949)
167
11
Space-Time Approach to Quantum Electrodynamics. Phys. Rev., 76, 769-789 (1949)
178