Quantum Electrodynamics of Strong Fields

Name: Quantum Electrodynamics of Strong Fields
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With an Introduction into Modern Relativistic Quantum Mechanics

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Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

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The fundamental goal of physics is an understanding of the forces of nature in their simplest and most general terms. Yet there is much more involved than just a basic set of equations which eventually has to be solved when applied to specific problems. We have learned in recent years that the structure of the ground state of field theories (with which we are generally concerned) plays an equally funda mental role as the equations of motion themselves. Heisenberg was probably the first to recognize that the ground state, the vacuum, could acquire certain prop erties (quantum numbers) when he devised a theory of ferromagnetism. Since then, many more such examples are known in solid state physics, e. g. supercon ductivity, superfluidity, in fact all problems concerned with phase transitions of many-body systems, which are often summarized under the name synergetics. Inspired by the experimental observation that also fundamental symmetries, such as parity or chiral symmetry, may be violated in nature, it has become wide ly accepted that the same field theory may be based on different vacua. Practical ly all these different field phases have the status of more or less hypothetical models, not (yet) directly accessible to experiments. There is one magnificent ex ception and this is the change of the ground state (vacuum) of the electron-posi tron field in superstrong electric fields.

Release date Australia

December 22nd, 2011

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Professional & Vocational

Edition

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985

Illustrations

XII, 596 p.

Pages

596

Series

Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

Dimensions

170x244x31

ISBN-13

9783642822742

Product ID

20771894

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