Seminar: Quantum Electrodynamics - Key works and recent literature
Organizers: D.-A. Deckert
Time & Location: Wed 10-12 Room B 046
Note the new time and location for Hannes' seminar: Friday, May 22nd, 14-16h in room B252.
Abstract
A weekly seminar discussing key works as well as modern literature on quantum electrodynamics with the objective to gain an overview and understanding of the basic mathematical and physical obstacles (i.a., infrared/ultraviolet divergences, charge renormalization, and Landau pole) that have yet prevented a construction of a well-defined theory. Furthermore, it shall be discussed how it was nonetheless possible to extract accurate predictions, e.g., in the cases of the Lamb shift, g-factor, and vacuum polarization.
Topics, Dates, and scheduled Speakers
| 22.04. | 29.04. | 22.05. | 27.07. | 03.06. | 10.06. | 17.06. | 24.06. | 01.07. | 08.07. | 15.07. |
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| Matteo | Lea | Hannes | Felix | Robin | Lukas | Christian | Jacqueline | Dirk | David | Robin |
Foundations:
- Matteo: "On Quantum Electrodynamics", Dirac-Fock-Podolsky, 1932
- Lea: "On a relativistically invariant formulation of the quantum theory of wave fields", Tomonaga, 1946
- Hannes: Overview on scattering theory and the origin of Feynman diagrams, or alternatively "Radiation theories by Tomonaga, Schwinger and Feynman", Dyson, 1948
Photon field:
- Felix: Overview on UV and IR divergences of the photon field (example: static sources)
- Robin: "Electromagnetic Shift of Energy Levels", Bethe, 1947
- Lukas: Overview on
g−2 Correction - Christian: "Classical Theory of Radiation Electrons", Dirac, 1938
- Robin: "Interaction with the Absorber as the Mechanism of Radiation", Wheeler-Feynman, 1945.
Electron field:
- Dirk: "Theory of the positron", Dirac, 1934, and overview on UV divergence of the Dirac field (example: vacuum polarization)
- David: "Self-consistent solution for the polarized vacuum in a no-photon QED model", Hainzl-Lewin-Séré, 2005
- Jacqueline: "Time-Evolution of the external field problem of QED", Deckert-Dürr-Merkl-Schottenloher, 2010
Additional Literature
- "Selected Papers on QED" edited by J. Schwinger. (1958)
- Dirac. "The principles of quantum mechanics." (1930)
- Dyson. "1951 Lectures on Advanced Quantum Mechanics Second Edition." arXiv preprint quant-ph/0608140. (2006)
- Schweber. "Introduction to relativistic quantum field theory." (1961)