QUANTUM FIELD THEORY

study of the quantum mechanical interaction of elementary particles and fields. Quantum field theory applied to the understanding of electromagnetism is called quantum electrodynamics (QED), and it has proved spectacularly successful in describing the interaction of light with matter. The calculations, however, are often complex. They are usually carried out with the aid of Feynman diagrams (named after American physicist Richard P. Feynman), simple graphs that represent possible variations of interactions and provide an elegant shorthand for precise mathematical equations. Quantum field theory applied to the understanding of the strong interactions between quarks and between protons, neutrons, and other baryons and mesons is called quantum chromodynamics (QCD); QCD has a mathematical structure similar to that of QED.

See R. P. Feynman, QED (1985); F. J. Yndurain, The Theory of Quark and Gluon Interactions (1993).

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Philosophy and the New Physics: An Essay on the Relativity Theory and the Theory of Quanta
Book by Louis Rougier; P. Blakistons Son, 1921
Subjects: Quantum Theory, Relativity (Physics)
...electrodynamical law. Of all the theories proposed since, none satisfies the mind like Einsteins theory of gravitation. According...ab , characteristic of the field of gravitation, and the numbers T ab , characteristic of the field of inertia ordinary matter and electromagnetic field , form a covariant tensor...
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The Quantum Classical Theory
Book by Gert D. Billing; Oxford University Press, 2003
Subjects: Molecular Dynamics, Quantum Chemistry
...overcome in an approximate theory by Tully 111. 3.3...of this chapter, the quantum-classical theory is...are governed by a mean field potential, constructed...the potential with the quantum wave function. However...coordinate, and ci the quantum mechanical amplitude...
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Quantum Implications: Essays in Honour of David Bohm
Book by B. J. Hiley, F. David Peat; Routledge, 1991
Subjects: Bohm, David, Quantum Theory
...could indeed be done by going on from the quantum mechanical particle theory to the quantum mechanical field theory. This is accomplished by starting...extend this causal interpretation to the quantum field theory. Here, the actuality will be the entire...
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Quantum Mechanics and the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead
Book by Michael Epperson; Fordham University Press, 2004
Subjects: Quantum Theory--Philosophy, Whitehead, Alfred North--1861-1947
Quantum theory conceptual innovations implied...exemplification of, 123-27 Quantum vacuum, 6-7, 235, 237...absolutes in, 173 as spacetime field theory, 181 Relativity...absolutes in, 173 relativistic quantum field theory compatible with...
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Quantum Mechanics: An Empiricist View
Book by Bas C. Van Fraassen; Oxford University Press, 1991
Subjects: Quantum Theory, Science--Philosophy
...Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press...The Danieri Loinger Prosperi Quantum Theory of Measurement, Il Nuovo...1973), On the Completeness of Quantum Mechanics, in Hooker (1973...
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The New Sciences of Administration: Chaos and Quantum Theory
Journal article by E. Sam Overman; Public Administration Review, Vol. 56, 1996
Subjects: Chaos theory--Social aspects, Public administration--Analysis, Quantum theory--Social aspects
...has edited a book, Quantum Politics (1991...of the essays apply quantum concepts to the institutions...bureaucracy to public energy fields is as important as the...metaphorical use of quantum concepts as an ambitious...process. Finally, in the field of environmental policy...authors use quantum theory to debate the classical...
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Quantum Mechanics and the Analysis of Behavior: Reflections and Speculations
Journal article by Edward J. Green; The Psychological Record, Vol. 52, 2002
Subjects: Behavioral assessment--Research, Mind and body--Research, Quantum theory--Psychological aspects
Quantum mechanics and...treatments of quantum theory are rife by...and general theories of relativity...writings in the field of quantum theory (Bohm, 1997...these various fields, I can follow...uncomfortable in the quantum universe. Einstein...basis of quantum theory. Einsteins theories initially were...developments in the field. Physical laws...
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Psychic Visions and Quantum Physics: Oates's Big Bang and the Limits of Language
Journal article by Samuel Chase Coale; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 38, 2006
Subjects: Oates, Joyce Carol--Criticism and interpretation, Oates, Joyce Carol--Works, Quantum mechanics--Analysis, Quantum theory--Analysis, The Big Bang (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation
...portrait that rests upon quantum theory and experiment. The...approach involves the theory of emergence, of the...approaches although emergence theories strike me as far more...instance if much of quantum theory defies linear logic...
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Quantum Physics and the Shaping of Life: Commentary on Klaus Fuchs's Critique of Mechanistic Determinism
Journal article by Herbert Horz; Nature, Society, and Thought, Vol. 17, 2004
Subjects: Philosophy, Physics, Quantum theory
...Five Years of Quantum Theory; he spoke on the...Philosophical Aspects of Quantum Mechanics (1977...conference in our field at Humboldt University...dynamical supplement to quantum physics, because...will be further theories: quantum physics...synthesis of quantum theory and the theory of...
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Dotted Lines: Networks, Quantum Holism, and the Changing Nation State
Journal article by Matthew S. Mingus; Public Administration Quarterly, Vol. 29, 2006
Subjects: Analysis, Boundaries, Canada, International relations-US, Models, Public administration, Quantum theory, Sovereignty, United States
...network structures, and using quantum theory and the philosophy of relational...44), many interpretations of quantum theory take the next step of arguing...spiritual and better grounded in quantum theory, but both make the monistic argument...
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Faith and Quantum Theory
Magazine article by Stephen M. Barr; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, March 2007
Subjects: Bohr, Niels (Danish physicist)--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Einstein, Albert--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Physicists--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Quantum mechanics--Evaluation, Quantum theory--Evaluation
...is a flood of such quantum flapdoodle (as the...authors who claim that quantum theory has implications...the electromagnetic field that fills all of space. The idea of fields goes back to Michael...chunks, which he called quanta. In other words...particle duality. Their quantum theory has been spectacularly...of nature. Newtons theories gave a unified account...
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Quantifying Quantum
Magazine article by Robert C. Whitten, Adam Demuro, Peter A. Pagan, William D. Hobey, Ralph Gillmann, David Haddon, Paula Haigh, Stephen M. Barr; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, June 2007
Subjects: Philosophy of science--Analysis, Quantum mechanics--Analysis, Quantum theory--Analysis, Science--Analysis, Science--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
...prefer standard quantum theory and its traditional...interpretation to Bohmian theory. The reasons are not...Bohms modification of quantum theory sacrificed much...manifestations of "quantum fields." This is one of the...and therefore with fields and forces. In fact...ways: as arising from "field lines" stretching between...
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Quantum Spirituality
Magazine article by Victor J. Stenger; Free Inquiry, Vol. 18, Winter 1997
Subjects: Quantum theory--Analysis, Spirit--Analysis
Quantum spirituality. by...The electromagnetic field, like the gravitational field proposed centuries...of their parts. Fields, on the other hand...Although the atomic theory of matter was well...The mathematics of fields had been successfully...type of continuous field. Furthermore, you...
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Quantum Consciousness and Other Spooky Myths
Magazine article by Martin Bier; Skeptic, Vol. 16, 2010
Subjects: Books, Cytoskeleton, Mathematical models, Neurosciences, Quantum theory
...definitive refutation of the quantum brain.4 But Hameroff...decades, been part of the field of biology. The theory of Penrose and Hameroff...giant leap straight from quantum physics to the solution...stature of Roger Penrose, quantum consciousness would...
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Warming Up to Criticality: Quantum Change, One Bubble at a Time
Magazine article by D. Castelvecchi; Science News, Vol. 171, March 17, 2007
Subjects: Quantum chemistry--Research, Quantum mechanics--Research, Quantum theory--Research
...ultracold fluid that displays quantum behavior. The atoms...condensate share a collective quantum persona that has wave...tuned to simulate the quantum properties of other states...confining it in a magnetic field and chilling it to near absolute zero. Theory predicts that the new...
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Quantum Mechanics, Computers, WIMPS
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 22, 2002
...and intelligible account of quantum physics and what it has wrought...account of the development of quantum theory, brought to life by numerous...discontinuous finite packets, or "quanta," of energy. This idea...In the 1920s, this "old" quantum theory, a hybrid of classical...
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TEN OF THE GREATEST; 30-Second Theories; LIVE FOR LISTS
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), June 27, 2010
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Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), December 8, 2008
...mystery of Einsteins unified field theory - the so-called "theory of everything" - could...scientist had three great theories. His first theory of special relativity in...complicated by the development of quantum theory - the study of particles...
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Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), October 10, 2010
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...So-Called Scientific Theory to One of Irelands Leading...and discoveries of the quantum physicists, she gushes...little background on this field: Quantum physics evolved in the...particles of matter, quantum physicists discovered...
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The God Particle; Mind over Matter: Professor Peter Higgs's Theory about How the Universe Holds Itself Together Will Be Tested in the Swiss Experiment
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 12, 2008
...Professor Peter Higgss Theory about How the Universe...Roxburgh Street concerns a field, now known as the Higgs field, that he believes pervades...he proposed that this field, akin to treacle...founder of the field of quantum mechanics. He graduated...
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Quantum Field Theory
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY study of the quantum mechanical interaction of elementary particles and fields . Quantum field theory applied to the understanding of electromagnetism...
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Quantum Theory
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...predictions of the theory. Relationship...According to the older theories of classical physics...to the quantum theory, energy is held...energy, called a quantum (pl. quanta), thus behaves...developments of the theory include quantum statistics, presented...electromagnetic fields ; its generalization, quantum field theory ; and quantum...
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Quantum Electrodynamics
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS (QED), quantum field theory that describes the properties of electromagnetic radiation...interaction with electrically charged matter in the framework of quantum theory . QED deals with processes involving the creation...
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Quantum Chromodynamics
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS (QCD), quantum field theory that describes the properties of the strong interactions...quarks and between protons and neutrons in the framework of quantum theory . Quarks possess a distinctive property called color...
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Electroweak Theory
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ELECTROWEAK THEORY a unified field theory that describes two of the fundamental forces in...produce a theory for the weak force analogous to quantum electrodynamics (QED), the quantum theory of the electromagnetic force. Although the...
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