Photon Scattering -- Lepton Scattering -- Quasi-Elastic Lepton-Quark Scattering -- The Hydrogen Atom -- Many Electron Atoms -- Hadrons -- Covalent and Ionic Bonding -- Intermolecular Forces -- Cold Neutron Scattering -- The Nuclear Force and the Deuteron -- Quantum Gases -- Quantum Liquids -- Metals -- Nuclei — Droplets of a Fermi Liquid -- Stars, Planets, and Asteroids -- Elementary Particle…
Maxwell and Schrödinger -- Lorentz, Pauli and Dirac -- Quantum Fields and Particles -- Scattering and Bound States -- Hyperfine Shifts, Radiation, Quarks.In this book, quantum mechanics is developed from the outset on a relativistic basis, using the superposition principle, Lorentz invariance and gauge invariance. Nonrelativistic quantum mechanics as well as classical relativistic mechanics ap…
Elements of Quantum Dynamics -- Electron-Impurity System -- Linear Response Theory -- Bosons Interacting with Electrons -- Interacting Phonon Systems -- Effects of Electron-Electron Interaction -- Non-Equilibrium Electrons -- Non-Equilibrium Diagram Technique -- Kinetics of Bounded Systems -- Quantum Magnetotransport -- Photoexcitation -- Ballistic and Hopping Transport -- Multi-Channel Kinetic…
Noncommutative Geometry -- Poisson Geometry and Deformation Quantization -- Applications in Physics -- Topological Quantum Field Theory.This volume reflects the growing collaboration between mathematicians and theoretical physicists to treat the foundations of quantum field theory using the mathematical tools of q-deformed algebras and noncommutative differential geometry. A particular challeng…
Results in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics -- The Construction of Fields -- Canonical Quantization -- Commutators and Propagators -- Interactions and the S-matrix -- The Electromagnetic Field -- Examples of Scattering Processes -- Functional Integral Representations -- Renormalization -- Gauge Theories -- Symmetry -- Spontaneous symmetry breaking -- Anomalies I -- Elements of differential geomet…
An Introduction to the Physics of the Early Universe -- Cosmological Perturbation Theory -- Cosmic Microwave Backgrond Anisotropies -- Oberservational Cosmology -- Dark Matter and Dark Energy -- String Cosmology -- Brane-World Cosmology -- Gravitational Wave Astronomy: the High Frequency Window -- Computational Black Hole Dynamics.The Physics of the Early Universe is an edited and expanded vers…
ElectroWeak Symmetry Breaking as of 2003, on the Way to the Large Hadron Collider -- Current Status of the CKM Matrix and the CP Violation -- Neutrino Masses -- Neutrinos -- Baryo- and Leptogenesis (Outline) -- Scalar Fields in Particle Physics in Cosmology -- Inflation, Quantum Fluctuations and Cosmological Perturbations -- Cosmic Microwave Background Cosmology -- Cosmology with Supernovae 1A …
Dirac Monopole -- Magnetic Monopole in Classical Theory -- The Electron-Monopole System:Quantum-Mechanical Interaction -- Topological Roots of the Abelian Monopole -- Abelian Monopole: Relativistic Quantum Theory -- Monopole in Non-Abelian Gauge Theories -- ’t Hooft-Polyakov Monopole -- Multimonopole Configurations -- SU(2) Monopole in Quantum Theory -- Monopoles Beyond SU(2) Group -- Monopol…
Knot Invariants and Configuration Space Integrals (Christine Lescop) -- Euclidean Quantum Field Theory on Commutative and Noncommutative Spaces (Raimar Wulkenhaar) -- Introduction to String Compactification (Anamaria Font, Stefan Theisen) -- Index Theorems and Noncommutative Topology (Thierry Fack).This volume offers an introduction, in the form of four extensive lectures, to some recent develo…
Introductory talks -- Today’s view on strangeness -- Strange and gluonic contributions to the nucleon spin -- Form factors and two-photon effects -- Electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon -- Two photon effects in electron scattering -- Single spin asymmetries in elastic electron-nucleon scattering -- Transverse single spin asymmetry in elastic electron-proton scattering -- Transverse spi…