Eugene V. Steganovich is one of those educators who can share a vast work experience with his students. He has a Ph.D degree in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Latvia and over 16 years professional experience with Synopsys, Inc.
Please forgive me as this is way above my head so I have quoted a bit liberally from Stefanovich’s website to provide this brief explanation of his textbook…
“Unification of quantum mechanics and the principle of relativity was one of the most desired goals in theoretical physics of the 20th century.” His online textbook explains a “new relativistic quantum theory of charged particles and their interactions,” which is called “Relativistic quantum dynamics” or RQD.
This is a truly living textbook as it has been updated 17 times since it was first published in 2005. When I added it to the Free Textbook List, the last update had been posted on 16 February 2015.
Table of Contents from Relativistic Quantum Dynamics
- Quantum Mechanics
- Poincaré Group
- Quantum Mechanics and Relativity
- Operators of Observables
- Single Particles
- Interaction
- Scattering
- Fock Space
- Quantum Eletrodynamics
- Renormalization
- Dressed Particle Approach
- Coulomb Potential and Beyond
- Decays
- RQD in Higher Orders
- Classical Electrodynamics
- Experimental Support for RQD
- Particles and Relativity
- Conclusions
The text also has a substantial set of mathematical appendices which include:
- Groups and vector spaces
- Delta function and useful integrals
- Some lemmas for orthocomplemented lattices
- Rotation Group
- Lie groups and Lie algebras
- Hilbert space
- Subspaces and projection operators
- Representations of groups
- Special relativity
- Quantum fields for fermions
- Quantum field for photons
- QED interaction in terms of particle operators
- Loop integrals in QED
- Relativistic invariance of RQD
- Dimensionality checks
NOTE: Remnants of a personal website for Steganovish can be found here – http://www.geocities.ws/meopemuk/. Oddly enough, the link to his own textbook no longer works but the links to his 6 articles on this topic appear to be functional.
View this Free Online Material at the source:
Relativistic Quantum Dynamics
