The Genesis Of Feynman Diagrams

Author : Adrian Wüthrich
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048192285
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Genesis of Feynman Diagrams written by Adrian Wüthrich and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a detailed reconstruction of the genesis of Feynman diagrams the author reveals that their development was constantly driven by the attempt to resolve fundamental problems concerning the uninterpretable infinities that arose in quantum as well as classical theories of electrodynamic phenomena. Accordingly, as a comparison with the graphical representations that were in use before Feynman diagrams shows, the resulting theory of quantum electrodynamics, featuring Feynman diagrams, differed significantly from earlier versions of the theory in the way in which the relevant phenomena were conceptualized and modelled. The author traces the development of Feynman diagrams from Feynman's "struggle with the Dirac equation" in unpublished manuscripts to the two of Freeman Dyson's publications which put Feynman diagrams into a field theoretic context. The author brings to the fore that Feynman and Dyson not only created a powerful computational device but, above all, a new conceptual framework in which the uninterpretable infinities that had arisen in the old form of the theory could be precisely identified and subsequently removed in a justifiable manner.

Author : David Kaiser
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226422658
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drawing Theories Apart written by David Kaiser and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-11-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2007 Pfizer Prize from the History of Science Society. Feynman diagrams have revolutionized nearly every aspect of theoretical physics since the middle of the twentieth century. Introduced by the American physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) soon after World War II as a means of simplifying lengthy calculations in quantum electrodynamics, they soon gained adherents in many branches of the discipline. Yet as new physicists adopted the tiny line drawings, they also adapted the diagrams and introduced their own interpretations. Drawing Theories Apart traces how generations of young theorists learned to frame their research in terms of the diagrams—and how both the diagrams and their users were molded in the process. Drawing on rich archival materials, interviews, and more than five hundred scientific articles from the period, Drawing Theories Apart uses the Feynman diagrams as a means to explore the development of American postwar physics. By focusing on the ways young physicists learned new calculational skills, David Kaiser frames his story around the crafting and stabilizing of the basic tools in the physicist's kit—thus offering the first book to follow the diagrams once they left Feynman's hands and entered the physics vernacular.

Author : S. M. Bilenky
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483187217
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Feynman Diagrams written by S. M. Bilenky and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Feynman Diagrams provides Feynman diagram techniques and methods for calculating quantities measured experimentally. The book discusses topics Feynman diagrams intended for experimental physicists. Topics presented include methods for calculating the matrix elements (by perturbation theory) and the basic rules for constructing Feynman diagrams; techniques for calculating cross sections and polarizations; processes in which both leptons and hadrons take part; and the electromagnetic and weak form factors of nucleons. Experimental physicists and graduate students of physics will find value in the book.

Author : Martinus Veltman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113993600X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diagrammatica written by Martinus Veltman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-06-16 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This author provides an easily accessible introduction to quantum field theory via Feynman rules and calculations in particle physics. His aim is to make clear what the physical foundations of present-day field theory are, to clarify the physical content of Feynman rules. The book begins with a brief review of some aspects of Einstein's theory of relativity that are of particular importance for field theory, before going on to consider the relativistic quantum mechanics of free particles, interacting fields, and particles with spin. The techniques learnt in the chapters are then demonstrated in examples that might be encountered in real accelerator physics. Further chapters contain discussions of renormalization, massive and massless vector fields and unitarity. A final chapter presents concluding arguments concerning quantum electrodynamics. The book includes valuable appendices that review some essential mathematics, including complex spaces, matrices, the CBH equation, traces and dimensional regularization. An appendix containing a comprehensive summary of the rules and conventions used is followed by an appendix specifying the full Lagrangian of the Standard Model and the corresponding Feynman rules. To make the book useful for a wide audience a final appendix provides a discussion of the metric used, and an easy-to-use dictionary connecting equations written with different metrics. Written as a textbook, many diagrams, exercises and examples are included. This book will be used by beginning graduate students taking courses in particle physics or quantum field theory, as well as by researchers as a source and reference book on Feynman diagrams and rules.

Author : Michael D. Scadron
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 366211044X
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advanced Quantum Theory and Its Applications Through Feynman Diagrams written by Michael D. Scadron and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fundamental goal of physics is an understanding of the forces of nature in their simplest and most general terms. Yet the scientific method inadver tently steers us away from that course by requiring an ever finer subdivision of the problem into constituent components, so that the overall objective is often obscured, even to the experts. The situation is most frustrating and acute for today's graduate students, who must try to absorb as much general knowledge as is possible and also try to digest only a sm all fraction of the ever increasing morass of observational data or detailed theories to write a dissertation. This book is based on the premise that to study a subject in depth is only half the battle; the remaining struggle is to put the pieces together in a broad but comprehensive manner. Accordingly, the primary purpose of this text is to cut across the barriers existing between the various fields ofmodern physics (elementary particles; nuclear, atomic, and solid state physics; gravitation) and present a unified description of the quantum nature of forces encountered in each field at the level of the second-year physics graduate student. This unification is based on one-body perturbation techniques, covariantly generalized to what are now called "Feynman diagrams," and is formulated aS,a simple (but nontriv ial) extension of ordinary nonrelativistic, one-particle quantum theory.

Author : Richard D. Mattuck
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486131645
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Guide to Feynman Diagrams in the Many-Body Problem written by Richard D. Mattuck and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superb introduction for nonspecialists covers Feynman diagrams, quasi particles, Fermi systems at finite temperature, superconductivity, vacuum amplitude, Dyson's equation, ladder approximation, and more. "A great delight." — Physics Today. 1974 edition.

Author : Robert J. Riddell (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Number of Feynman Diagrams written by Robert J. Riddell (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sadovskii Michael V
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811212228
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diagrammatics: Lectures On Selected Problems In Condensed Matter Theory (2nd Edition) written by Sadovskii Michael V and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The introduction of quantum field theory methods has led to a kind of 'revolution' in condensed matter theory, resulting in the increased importance of Feynman diagrams or diagram technique. So, it has now become imperative for professionals in condensed matter theory to have a thorough knowledge of this method.The book is intended to teach students, postdocs and young theorists to use diagrammatic quantum field theory methods applied to different problems of modern condensed matter theory, using specific examples of such problems. This latest edition is extended by the inclusion of some new material on superconductivity and diagram combinatorics.

Author : Radi A. Jishi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107025176
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feynman Diagram Techniques in Condensed Matter Physics written by Radi A. Jishi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the application of Feynman diagram techniques for researchers and advanced undergraduate students in condensed matter theory and many-body physics.

Author : Martinus Veltman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521456920
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diagrammatica written by Martinus Veltman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-06-16 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An easily accessible introduction to quantum field theory via Feynman rules in particle physics.