Overview
- Highlights the principle of stationary action as common starting point of classical and quantum mechanics
- Perfect companion for courses on path integrals, on advanced mechanics or quantum mechanics and semiclassical methods
- New edition showcases updates for all chapters and a new chapter with a clear and explicit account of Lie-Brackets and pseudocanonical transformations
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (38 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Action Angle Variable
- Adiabatic Invariance Physics
- Berry's Phase
- Canonical Perturbation Theory
- Hamilton Jacobi Equation
- Introduction to Classical and Quantum Field Theory
- Path Integral Physics
- Schwinger Action Principle
- Textbook Classical Dynamics
- Textbook Quantum Dynamics
- Textbook Quantum Mechanics
- Topology Quantum Mechanics
- Lie Brackets
About this book
The fifth edition has been revised and enlarged to include chapters on quantum electrodynamics, in particular, Schwinger’s proper time method and the treatment of classical and quantum mechanics with Lie brackets and pseudocanonical transformations. It is shown that operator quantum electrodynamics can be equivalently described with c-numbers, as demonstrated by calculating the propagation function for an electron in a prescribed classical electromagnetic field.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Prof. Dr. Walter Dittrich had been head of the quantum electrodynamics group at the University of Tübingen. He started his work on gauge theories and QED in collaboration with Julian Schwinger. Walter Dittrich has worked for more than 20 years in cooperation with the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton and the National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford (SLAC). He has over 30 years of teaching experience and is one of the key scientists in developing the theoretical framework of quantum electrodynamics.
Prof. Dr. Martin Reuter is head of the quantum Einstein gravity group at the Institute for High Energy Physics of the University Mainz. His research focuses on particle physics, quantum field theory and quantum Einstein gravity. He worked in close collaboration with the synchrotron facility DESY and the large hadron collider collaborations at CERN. He has more than 30 years of teaching experience in theoretical physics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Classical and Quantum Dynamics
Book Subtitle: From Classical Paths to Path Integrals
Authors: Walter Dittrich, Martin Reuter
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58298-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86369-6Published: 28 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58298-6Published: 11 May 2017
Edition Number: 5
Number of Pages: XVI, 489
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations
Additional Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Topics: Quantum Physics, Classical and Continuum Physics, Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences, Particle and Nuclear Physics