Early Quantum Electrodynamics

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This book provides a panoramic view from 1927â"1938 of the development of a physical theory that has been on the cutting-edge of theoretical physics ever since P. A. M. Dirac's quantization of the electromagnetic field in 1927: quantum electrodynamics. Like the classic papers chosen for this volume, the introductory Frame-Setting Essay emphasizes conceptual transformations which carried physicists to the threshold of renormalization theory. The published papers and correspondence of Bohr, Heisenberg, Dirac and Pauli provide a fascinating analysis of the meaning and structure of a scientific theory. This book goes beyond the historical and philosophical into current physics. Unavailability of English-language versions of certain key papers, some of which are provided in this book, has prevented their implications from being fully realized. Awareness of research from sixty years ago could well provide insights for future developments.

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Preface
Notes to the Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes to the Reader
From quantum mechanics toward quantum electrodynamics
Niels Bohr's atomic theory, 1913-23
The coupling mechanism
Virtual oscillators
Quantum mechanics versus wave mechanics
Intrinsic symmetry
Transformation theory and word meanings
The uncertainty principle paper
Complementarity
Conclusion
Second quantization
Jordan's 1926 results
Dirac's quantization of the electromagnetic field
Jordan's quantization of bosons and fermions
Jordan and Pauli's relativistic quantization of charge-free electromagnetic fields
Photons and relativistic electrons
The Dirac equation
Heisenberg and Pauli on quantum electrodynamics, 1929
The electron's mass in classical and quantum electrodynamics
From negative energy states to positrons
Quantum electrodynamics
Measurement problems in a quantum theory of the electromagnetic field
Heisenberg's first attempt at a fundamental length
An 'intuitive' time-dependent perturbation theory
Multiple-time theory, hole theory and second quantization
Dirac at Solvay in 1933: vacuum polarization
The Heisenberg-Pauli collaboration on positron theory
The subtraction physics
Dirac defines the problem
Weisskopf's calculation of the electron's self-energy in hole theory
Beyond the correspondence principle
Heisenberg's formulation of subtraction physics
Some reactions to Heisenberg
Quantization of the Klein-Gordon equation: the Pauli-Weisskopf statistics
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