OPT/QE2 Quantum Electrodynamics 2

Lecturer: Zdeněk Hradil
Lecture: 2 hours/week
Credits: 4
Summer semester
Form of course completion: exam

Introduction to physics of elementary particles, Lorentz transformation and special theory of relativity, Klein-Gordon equation, spinor representation of Lorentz group, Dirac equation and its interpretation, vacuum and antiparticles, Gamma matrices, Maxwell equations in a covariant form, variational principle and symmetries, Noether theorem and conservation laws, scalar complex and electromagnetic field, Bohm-Ahronov effect, canonical quantization of scalar Klein-Gordon field, Dirac filed and anti commutators, canonical quantization of electromagnetic filed, gauge fields, radiation and Lorentz gauge, Feynmann path integral.