Quantum Electrodynamics

Glenn Elert

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Resources

Historical papers
- tomonaga (note the variation in spelling of his first name)
  - On a Relativistically Invariant Formulation of the Quantum Theory of Wave Fields. S. Tomonaga. Progress of Theoretical Physics. Vol. 1, No. 2 (1946): 27-42.
  - On a Relativistically Invariant Formulation of the Quantum Theory of Wave Fields, II: Case of Interacting Electromagnetic and Electron Fields. Zirô Koba, Takao Tati, and Sin-itiro Tomonaga. Progress of Theoretical Physics. Vol. 2 No. 3 (1947): 101–116.
  - On a Relativistically Invariant Formulation of the Quantum Theory of Wave Fields, III: Case of Interacting Electromagnetic and Electron Fields. Zirô Koba, Takao Tati, and Sin-ichirô Tomonaga. Progress of Theoretical Physics. Vol. 2, No. 4 (1947): 198–208.
  - On a Relativistically Invariant Formulation of the Quantum Theory of Wave Fields, IV: Case of Interacting Electromagnetic and Meson Fields. Suteo Kanesawa and Sin-itiro Tomonaga. Progress of Theoretical Physics. Vol. 3, No. 1 (1948): 1–13.
  - On Infinite Field Reactions in Quantum Field Theory. Sin-itiro Tomonaga and J.R. Oppenheimer. Physical Review. Vol. 74, No. 2 (1948): 224–225.
- schwinger
  - On Quantum-Electrodynamics and the Magnetic Moment of the Electron. Julian Schwinger. Physical Review. Vol. 73, No. 4 (1948): 416–417.
  - Quantum Electrodynamics, I: A Covariant Formulation. Julian Schwinger. Physical Review. Vol. 74, No. 10 (1948): 1439–1461.
  - Quantum Electrodynamics, II: Vacuum Polarization and Self-Energy. Julian Schwinger. Physical Review. Vol. 75, No. 4 (1949): 651–679.
  - Quantum Electrodynamics, III: The Electromagnetic Properties of the Electron—Radiative Corrections to Scattering. Julian Schwinger. Physical Review. Vol. 76, No. 6 (1949): 790–817.
- feynman
  - Interaction with the Absorber as the Mechanism of Radiation. John Archibald Wheeler and Richard Phillips Feynman. Reviews of Modern Physics. Vol. 17, No. 2–3 (1945): 157–181.
  - Space-Time Approach to Non-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics. Richard P. Feynman. Reviews of Modern Physics. Vol. 20, No. 2 (1948): 367–387.
  - A Relativistic Cut-Off for Classical Electrodynamics. Richard P. Feynman. Physical Review. Vol. 74, No. 8 (1948): 939–946.
- dyson
  - The Radiation Theories of Tomonaga, Schwinger, and Feynman. Freeman J. Dyson. Physical Review. Vol. 75, No. 3 (1949): 486–502.
photon
- Experimental Limits on the Photon Mass and Cosmic Magnetic Vector Potential. Roderic Lakes. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 80, No. 9 (1998): 1826–1829.
- New Experimental Limit on the Photon Rest Mass with a Rotating Torsion Balance. Jun Luo, Liang-Cheng Tu, Zhong-Kun Hu, and En-Jie Luan. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 90, No. 8 (2003) no page numbers.
Video on demand
- Brady Haran
  - Feynman Diagrams. Sixty Symbols. YouTube (2010). Feynman Diagrams help physicists understand what happens when particles collide.
- Physics for the 21st century (2010)
  - The Fundamental Interactions