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NOTATION
INTRODUCTION
§1. The uncertainty principle in the relativistic case
Ⅰ. PHOTONS
§2. Quantization of the free electromagnetic field
§3. Photons
§4. Gauge invariance
§5. The electromagnetic field in quantum theory
§6. The angular momentum and parity of the photon
§7. Spherical waves of photons
§8. The polarization of the photon
§9. A two-photon system
Ⅱ. BOSONS
§10. The wave equation for particles with spin zero
§11. Particles and antiparticles
§12. Strictly neutral particles
§13. The transformations C,P and T
§14. The wave equation for a particle with spin one
§15. The wave equation for particles with higher integral spins
§16. Helicity states of a particle
Ⅲ. FERMIONS
§17. Four-dimensional spinors
§18. The relation between spinors and 4-vectors
§19. Inversion of spinors
§20. Dirac's equation in the spinor representation
§21. The symmetrical form of Dirac's equation
§22. Algebra of Dirac matrices
§23. Plane waves
§24. Spherical waves
§25. The relation between the spin and the statistics
§26. Charge conjugation and time reversal of spinors
§27. Internal symmetry of particles and antiparticles
§28. Bilinear forms
§29. The polarization density matrix
§30. Neutrinos
§31. The wave equation for a particle with spin 3/2
Ⅳ. PARTICLES IN AN EXTERNAL FIELD
§32. Dirac's equation for an electron in an external field
§33. Expansion in powers of 1/c
§34. Fine structure of levels of the hydrogen atom
§35. Motion in a centrally symmetric field
§36. Motion in a Coulomb field
§37. Scattering in a centrally symmetric field
§38. Scattering in the ultra-relativistic case
§39. The continuous-spectrum wave functions for scattering in a Coulomb field
§40. An electron in the field of an electromagnetic plane wave
§41. Motion of spin in an external feld
§42. Neutron scattering in an electric field
Ⅴ. RADIATION
§43. The electromagnetic interaction operator
§44. Emission and absorption
§45. Dipole radiation
§46. Electric multipole radiation
§47. Magnetic multipole radiation
§48. Angular distribution and polarization of the radiation
§49. Radiation from atoms: the electric type550. Radiation from atoms: the magnetic type
§51. Radiation from atoms: the Zeeman and Stark effects
§52. Radiation from atoms: the hydrogen atom
§53. Radiation from diatomic molecules: electronic spectra
§54. Radiation from diatomic molecules: vibrational and rotational spectra
§55. Radiation from nuclei
§56. The photoelectric effect: non-relativistic case
§57. The photoelectric effect: relativistic case
§58. Photodisintegration of the deuteron
Ⅵ. SCATTERING OF RADIATION
§59. The scattering tensor
§60. Scattering by freely oriented systems
§61. Scattering by molecules
§62. Natural width of spectral lines
§63. Resonance fluorescence
Ⅶ. THE SCATTERING MATRIX
§64. The scattering amplitude
§65. Reactions involving polarized particles
§66. Kinematic invariants
§67. Physical regions
§68. Expansion in partial amplitudes
§69. Symmetry of helicity scattering amplitudes
§70. Invariant amplitudes
§71. The unitarity condition
Ⅷ. INVARIANT PERTURBATION THEORY
§72. The chronological product
§73. Feynman diagrams for electron scattering
§74. Feynman diagrams for photon scattering
§75. The electron propagator
§76. The photon propagator
§77. General rules of the diagram technique
§78. Crossing invariance
§79. Virtual particles
Ⅸ. INTERACTION OF ELECTRONS
§80. Scattering of an electron in an external field
§81. Scattering of electrons and positrons by an electron
§82. Ionization losses of fast particles
§83. Breit's equation
§84. Positronium
§85. The interaction of atoms at large distances
Ⅹ. INTERACTION OF ELECTRONS WITH PHOTONS
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