Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Field TheoryTian Yu Cao Quantum field theory is a powerful language for the description of the subatomic constituents of the physical world and the laws and principles that govern them. This book contains up-to-date in-depth analyses, by a group of eminent physicists and philosophers of science, of our present understanding of its conceptual foundations, of the reasons why this understanding has to be revised so that the theory can go further, and of possible directions in which revisions may be promising and productive. These analyses will be of interest to graduate students and research workers in physics who want to know about the foundational problems of their subject. The book will also be of interest to professional philosophers, historians and sociologists of science, because it contains much material for metaphysical and methodological reflections, for historical and cultural analyses, and for sociological analyses of the way in which various factors contribute to the way the foundations are revised. |
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... particles or fields 314 22 The ineliminable classical face of quantum field theory 314 PAUL TELLER 23 The logic of quanta 324 STEVEN FRENCH and DÉCIO KRAUSE X 24 Do Feynman diagrams endorse a particle ontology ? vi Contents.
... particles or fields 314 22 The ineliminable classical face of quantum field theory 314 PAUL TELLER 23 The logic of quanta 324 STEVEN FRENCH and DÉCIO KRAUSE X 24 Do Feynman diagrams endorse a particle ontology ? vi Contents.
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... particle is similar but with more uncertainty at this moment . Still more difficult is the question as to the reality of virtual particles : they can either be dismissed as an artifact of the perturbative expansion in terms of free particle ...
... particle is similar but with more uncertainty at this moment . Still more difficult is the question as to the reality of virtual particles : they can either be dismissed as an artifact of the perturbative expansion in terms of free particle ...
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... Particles and fields Historically , in the physical interpretation of STR - based QFT , particularly in the discussion of the field - particle relationship , the operator formalism of free fields and their Fock space structure has ...
... Particles and fields Historically , in the physical interpretation of STR - based QFT , particularly in the discussion of the field - particle relationship , the operator formalism of free fields and their Fock space structure has ...
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... particles and free fields without recourse to the idea of active quantization was Wigner's representation theory , " which , however , can be shown to be compatible with and equivalent to canonical quantization . This , together with ...
... particles and free fields without recourse to the idea of active quantization was Wigner's representation theory , " which , however , can be shown to be compatible with and equivalent to canonical quantization . This , together with ...
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Tian Yu Cao. of particles or fields . In order to develop the idea of particles as field quanta from the concept of a quantum system , several steps have to be taken . First , a quantum field has to be assumed . It does not matter too ...
Tian Yu Cao. of particles or fields . In order to develop the idea of particles as field quanta from the concept of a quantum system , several steps have to be taken . First , a quantum field has to be assumed . It does not matter too ...
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The Structural Foundations of Quantum Gravity Dean Rickles,Steven French,Juha T. Saatsi No preview available - 2006 |