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100 1 _aWachter, Armin.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aRelativistic Quantum Mechanics
_h[electronic resource] /
_cby Armin Wachter.
264 1 _aDordrecht :
_bSpringer Netherlands,
_c2011.
300 _aXVI, 372 p.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aTheoretical and Mathematical Physics,
_x1864-5879
505 0 _aList of Exercises -- Preface -- 1. Relativistic Description of Spin-0 Particles -- 2. Relativistic Description of Spin-1/2 Particles -- 3. Relativistic Scattering Theory, Appendix.
520 _aWhich problems do arise within relativistic enhancements of the Schrödinger theory, especially if one adheres to the usual one-particle interpretation, and to what extent can these problems be overcome? And what is the physical necessity of quantum field theories? In many books, answers to these fundamental questions are given highly insufficiently by treating the relativistic quantum mechanical one-particle concept very superficially and instead introducing field quantization as soon as possible. By contrast, this monograph emphasizes relativistic quantum mechanics in the narrow sense: it extensively discusses relativistic one-particle concepts and reveals their problems and limitations, therefore motivating the necessity of quantized fields in a physically comprehensible way. The first chapters contain a detailed presentation and comparison of the Klein-Gordon and Dirac theory, always in view of the non-relativistic theory. In the third chapter, we consider relativistic scattering processes and develop the Feynman rules from propagator techniques. This is where the impossibility to get around a quantum field theoretical reasoning is discussed and basic quantum field theoretical concepts are introduced. This book addresses undergraduate and graduate physics students who are interested in a clearly arranged and structured presentation of relativistic quantum mechanics in the "narrow sense" and its connection to quantum field theories. Each section contains a short summary and exercises with solutions. A mathematical appendix rounds up this excellent introductory book on relativistic quantum mechanics.
650 0 _aPhysics.
650 0 _aQuantum theory.
650 1 4 _aPhysics.
650 2 4 _aQuantum Physics.
650 2 4 _aElementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
_z9789048136445
830 0 _aTheoretical and Mathematical Physics,
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856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3645-2
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