保罗 狄拉克 量子力学讲座 量子力学的奠基者之一 Lectures on Quantum Mechanics 英文原版 Paul A M Dirac 

基本信息

Format Paperback | 96 pages

Dimensions 6 x 215 x 7.11mm | 104.33g

Publication date 28 Mar 2003

Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

Language English

Illustrations note 0

ISBN10 0486417131

ISBN13 9780486417134

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

这套关于量子力学数学方法的简明而精彩的系列讲座的作者是该领域中闪亮的智者之一，因其在原子量子力学方面的开创性工作而在1933年获得诺贝尔奖。除此之外，他还发展了量子力学的变换理论（这使得计算某些变量的统计分布成为可能），是辐射量子理论的主要作者之一，共同发现了费米-狄拉克统计，并预测了正电子的存在。

本书中的四个讲座是1964年在纽约耶希瓦大学发表的。第一讲 "哈密尔顿方法 "是对通过使用经典力学使量子理论可视化的介绍。其余的讲座都建立在这一理念之上。《量子化问题》展示了人们如何从经典场论开始，最终得到量子场论。在《曲面上的量子化》中，狄拉克研究了在曲面上建立相对论量子理论的可能性。他推断这是不可能的，但在平面上应该是可能的。在最后一讲 "平坦表面上的量子化 "中，他得出结论：我们可以为博恩-因菲尔德电动力学的量子理论建立基本方程，使之与狭义相对论相一致，但[不]与广义相对论相一致。物理和化学专业的学生会发现这本书是他们图书馆的宝贵补充，任何对量子力学的深远和有影响力的思想感兴趣的人也会发现这本书。

The author of this concise, brilliant series of lectures on mathematical methods in quantum mechanics was one of the shining intellects in the field, winning a Nobel prize in 1933 for his pioneering work in the quantum mechanics of the atom. Beyond that, he developed the transformation theory of quantum mechanics (which made it possible to calculate the statistical distribution of certain variables), was one of the major authors of the quantum theory of radiation, codiscovered the Fermi-Dirac statistics, and predicted the existence of the positron.

The four lectures in this book were delivered at Yeshiva University, New York, in 1964. The first, The Hamiltonian Method, is an introduction to visualizing quantum theory through the use of classical mechanics. The remaining lectures build on that idea. The Problem of Quantization shows how one can start with a classical field theory and end up with a quantum field theory. In Quantization on Curved Surfaces, Dirac examines the possibility of building a relativistic quantum theory on curved surfaces. He deduces that it is not possible, but it should be possible on flat surfaces. In the final lecture, Quantization on Flat Surfaces, he concludes that we can set up the basic equations for a quantum theory of the Born-Infeld electrodynamics agreeing with special relativity, but [not] with general relativity. Physics and chemistry students will find this book an invaluable addition to their libraries, as will anyone intrigued by the far-reaching and influential ideas of quantum mechanics.

目录

Lecture No.

1. The Hamilton Method

2. The Problem of Quantization

3. Quantization on Curved Surfaces

4. Quantization on Flat Surfaces

作者简介

保罗-阿德里安-莫里斯-狄拉克OM FRS（1902年8月8日-1984年10月20日）是英国理论物理学家，被认为是20世纪最重要的物理学家之一。

狄拉克对量子力学和量子电动力学的早期发展做出了基本贡献。除其他发现外，他提出了描述费米子行为的狄拉克方程，并预测了反物质的存在。狄拉克与埃尔温-薛定谔分享了1933年诺贝尔物理学奖，"因为他发现了新的原子理论的生产形式"。他还对广义相对论与量子力学的协调做出了重大贡献。

狄拉克被他的朋友和同事视为性格不同寻常。爱因斯坦在1926年写给保罗-埃伦费斯特的信中谈到狄拉克时说："我对狄拉克有意见。这种在天才和疯狂之间的晕眩道路上的平衡是可怕的"。在另一封关于康普顿效应的信中，他写道："我完全不理解狄拉克"。

他是剑桥大学的卢卡斯数学教授，是迈阿密大学理论研究中心的成员，并在佛罗里达州立大学度过他生命中的最后十年。

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac OM FRS (8 August 1902 – 20 October 1984) was an English theoretical physicist who is regarded as one of the most significant physicists of the 20th century.

Dirac made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. Among other discoveries, he formulated the Dirac equation which describes the behaviour of fermions and predicted the existence of antimatter. Dirac shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics with Erwin Schrödinger "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory".He also made significant contributions to the reconciliation of general relativity with quantum mechanics.

Dirac was regarded by his friends and colleagues as unusual in character. In a 1926 letter to Paul Ehrenfest, Albert Einstein wrote of Dirac, "I have trouble with Dirac. This balancing on the dizzying path between genius and madness is awful." In another letter concerning the Compton effect he wrote, "I don't understand Dirac at all."

He was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, was a member of the Center for Theoretical Studies, University of Miami, and spent the last decade of his life at Florida State University.