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Methods of Quantization

Heimo Latal Wolfgang Schweiger

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  • 2001
Thisvolumecontainsthewrittenversionsofinvitedlecturespresentedat the"39. InternationaleUniversitatswochenfur .. Kern-undTeilchenphysik"in Schladming, Austria, which took place from February 26th to March 4th, 2000. The title of the school was "Methods of Quantization". This is, of course,averybroad?eld,soonlysomeofthenewandinterestingdevel- mentscouldbecoveredwithinthescopeoftheschool. About75yearsagoSchrodingerpresentedhisfamouswaveequationand Heisenbergcameupwithhisalgebraicapproachtothequantum-theoretical treatmentofatoms. Aimingmainlyatanappropriatedescriptionofatomic systems, these original developments did not take into consideration E- stein'stheoryofspecialrelativity. WiththeworkofDirac,Heisenberg,and Pauliitsoonbecameobviousthatauni?edtreatmentofrelativisticandqu- tume?ectsisachievedbymeansoflocalquantum?eldtheory,i. e. anintrinsic many-particletheory. Mostofourpresentunderstandingoftheelementary buildingblocksofmatterandtheforcesbetweenthemisbasedonthequ- tizedversionof?eldtheorieswhicharelocallysymmetricundergaugetra- formations. Nowadays,theprevailingtoolsforquantum-?eldtheoreticalc- culationsarecovariantperturbationtheoryandfunctional-integralmethods. Beingnotmanifestlycovariant,theHamiltonianapproachtoquantum-?eld theorieslagssomewhatbehind,althoughitresemblesverymuchthefamiliar nonrelativisticquantummechanicsofpointparticles. Aparticularlyintere- ingHamiltonianformulationofquantum-?eldtheoriesisobtainedbyqu- tizingthe?eldsonhypersurfacesoftheMinkowsispacewhicharetangential tothelightcone. The"timeevolution"ofthesystemisthenconsideredin + "light-conetime"x =t+z/c. Theappealingfeaturesof"light-conequ- tization",whicharethereasonsfortherenewedinterestinthisformulation ofquantum?eldtheories,werehighlightedinthelecturesofBernardBakker andThomasHeinzl. Oneoftheopenproblemsoflight-conequantizationis theissueofspontaneoussymmetrybreaking. Thiscanbetracedbacktozero modeswhich,ingeneral,aresubjecttocomplicatedconstraintequations. A generalformalismforthequantizationofphysicalsystemswithconstraints waspresentedbyJohnKlauder. Theperturbativede?nitionofquantum?eld theoriesisingenerala?ictedbysingularitieswhichareovercomebyare- larizationandrenormalizationprocedure. Structuralaspectsoftherenormal- VI Preface izationprobleminthecaseofgaugeinvariant?eldtheorieswerediscussed inthelectureofKlausSibold. Areviewofthemathematicsunderlyingthe functional-integralquantizationwasgivenbyLudwigStreit. Apartfromthetopicsincludedinthisvolumetherewerealsolectures ontheKaluza-odingerpresentedhisfamouswaveequationand Heisenbergcameupwithhisalgebraicapproachtothequantum-theoretical treatmentofatoms. Aimingmainlyatanappropriatedescriptionofatomic systems, these original developments did not take into consideration E- stein'stheoryofspecialrelativity. WiththeworkofDirac,Heisenberg,and Pauliitsoonbecameobviousthatauni?edtreatmentofrelativisticandqu- tume?ectsisachievedbymeansoflocalquantum?eldtheory,i. e. anintrinsic many-particletheory. Mostofourpresentunderstandingoftheelementary buildingblocksofmatterandtheforcesbetweenthemisbasedonthequ- tizedversionof?eldtheorieswhicharelocallysymmetricundergaugetra- formations. Nowadays,theprevailingtoolsforquantum-?eldtheoreticalc- culationsarecovariantperturbationtheoryandfunctional-integralmethods. Beingnotmanifestlycovariant,theHamiltonianapproachtoquantum-?eld theorieslagssomewhatbehind,althoughitresemblesverymuchthefamiliar nonrelativisticquantummechanicsofpointparticles. Aparticularlyintere- ingHamiltonianformulationofquantum-?eldtheoriesisobtainedbyqu- tizingthe? eldsonhypersurfacesoftheMinkowsispacewhicharetangential tothelightcone. The"timeevolution"ofthesystemisthenconsideredin + "light-conetime"x =t+z/c. Theappealingfeaturesof"light-conequ- tization",whicharethereasonsfortherenewedinterestinthisformulation ofquantum?eldtheories,werehighlightedinthelecturesofBernardBakker andThomasHeinzl. Oneoftheopenproblemsoflight-conequantizationis theissueofspontaneoussymmetrybreaking. Thiscanbetracedbackto...
  • Författare: Heimo Latal, Wolfgang Schweiger
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9783540421009
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 228
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2001-07-17
  • Förlag: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG