00000cmm a22000004a 4500 UP-99796217611235967 Buklod 20230215085534.0 m go j cr |n |||auu|a 100929s2011 xx u | eng d 9789048136452 (eBook) 9048136458 (eBook) (iLib)UPD-00215705155 DML eng DMLUC QC 174.25 R4 W33 2011eb Wachter, Armin Relativistic quantum mechanics [electronic resource] Armin Wachter. Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2011. 1 online resource (xvi, 372 p.) ill. Theoretical and mathematical physics IP-based subscription, on campus only. Access via Electronic Resources of the UPD University Library Website. Which 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. Electronic reproduction. New York SpringerLink c2011. Available via World Wide Web through SpringerLink. Relativist quantum theory. Electronic books. SpringerLink (Online service). Electronic Resource Available for University of the Philippines Diliman via SpringerLink. Click here to access http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-90-481-3645-2 FO Monograph UPD DMLR Electronic Resource