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Quantum Electrodynamics

Vladimir Berestetskii info, Evgeny Lifshitz info, Lev Pitaevskii info

First published 1971

Volume 4 of Course of Theoretical Physics (Landau & Lifshitz)

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About this book

Relativistic quantum theory and QED.

The authors

Vladimir Berestetskii

1913–1977 · Soviet theoretical physicist and university teacher

Profession
Physicist
Worked at
Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics
Studied at
Peter the Great Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University
Studied under
Matvei Petrovich Bronstein

Evgeny Lifshitz

1915–1985 · Soviet physicist

  • Worked at Kapitza Institute
Profession
Physicist
Worked at
Kapitza Institute, Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology
Studied at
Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology, Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute
Studied under
Lev Landau
Prizes
Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1982), Mikhail Lomonosov Award (1958), Landau Gold Medal (1974)

Wrote the Course down with Landau, who rarely wrote anything himself.

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Lev Pitaevskii

1933–2022 · Russian theoretical physicist at University of Trento

  • Worked at Kapitza Institute
Profession
Physicist
Worked at
Kapitza Institute, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, University of Trento
Studied at
Saratov State University
Studied under
Lev Landau
Prizes
Feenberg Medal (1997), Landau Gold Medal (2008), Enrico Fermi Prize (2018), Pomeranchuk Prize (2018), Lars Onsager Prize (2021)

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Reading order

Prerequisites: The Classical Theory of Fields (Landau) · Quantum Mechanics (Landau)

In print

Yes · Butterworth-Heinemann (Elsevier) paperback, 2nd edition

Which edition

Get the 2nd edition (1982). The first edition came out in two parts under another title, Relativistic Quantum Theory (1971 and 1974).

Recommended: Course of Theoretical Physics, Volume 4

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Editions

2 editions · 0 hardcover, 1 paperback

First published 1971

Earliest edition listed: 1982 · Butterworth-Heinemann · Paperback · 2 edition

  • 1982 · Butterworth-Heinemann · Paperback · 2 edition · ISBN 9780750633710
  • 1982 · Butterworth-Heinemann · 2nd ed. · ISBN 9780750633710

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