Selected papers on quantum electrodynamics

Marc Ross

V. Detlovs, А.С. Есенин-Вольпин, I. Hlodovskiĭ +5 more

Eduardo De Rafael B

HERBERT WALTHER, Theodor W. Hänsch, B. Neizert

This conference proceeding contains invited papers on recentprogress in many subfields of atomic physics. Major advances inspectroscopy, laser cooling and trapping, atom interferometry,cavity quantum electrodynamics are discussed in many of thepresented papers. Quantum chaos is explored as well as novelexperiments with atoms in intense laser fields are discussed. Atotal of forty two papers are given in this proceedings, out ofthese, eleven have been abstracted for database. (AIP)

Richard P. Feynman

Silvio Bergia

Quantum field theory, and in particular quantum electrodynamics (QED), are milestones in the history of twentieth century physics. Not all interpretative problems presented by them, however, can be said to have been settled once and for all. In this paper the first papers on QED by P. Jordan and P.A.M. Dirac are briefly analysed, with the intent to show that the authors confronted themselves from the beginning with the essential of those problems, that their answers were not unambiguous, and that there are still some open questions concerning the subject matter. The potentiality and up-to-dateness of Dirac's work are particularly emphasised.