[POD] Quantum Electrodynamics

Editor's Foreword v (2)
Preface vii
Interaction of Light with Matter--Quantum 3 (20)
Electrodynamics
Discussion of Fermi's method 3 (1)
Laws of Quantum electrodynamics 4 (19)
Resume of the Principles and Results of 23 (11)
Special Relativity
Solution of the Maxwell equation in empty 28 (2)
space
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 50 (6)
equation
Solution of the Dirac Equation for a Free 56 (15)
Particle
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 78 (3)
potential
Calculation of the propagation kernel for a 81 (6)
free particle
Momentum representation 87 (4)
Relativistic Treatment of the Interaction of 91 (27)
Particles with Light
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 112(3)
spin states
Effects of screening of the coulomb field 115(3)
in atoms
Interaction of Several Electron 118(10)
Derivation of the "rules" of quantum 122(2)
electrodynamics
Electron-electron scattering 124(4)
Discussion and Interpretation of Various 128(34)
"Correction" Terms
Electron-electron interaction 128(3)
Electron-positron interaction 131(1)
Positronium 132(2)
Two-photon exchange between electrons 134(1)
and/or positrons
Self-energy of the electron 135(4)
Method of integration of integrals 139(1)
appearing in quantum electrodynamics
Self-energy integral with an external 140(2)
potential
Scattering in an external potential 142(8)
Resolution of the fictitious "infared 150(2)
catastrophe"
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 165(2)
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749-759 (1949)
Space-Time Approach to Quantum Electrodynamics. 178
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