Quantum Field Theory

News, 2 October 2009

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Casimir effect

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Lamb shift, radiative transitions

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Vacuum polarization, Uehling potential, Landau pole

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Schwinger pair production, semiclassical description (see Problem 2 in Section 129 of Landau and Lifshits vol. 4, III edition). For a more accurate description of the process see also Eq.(129.22) in this section, which was thoroughly discussed on lecture.

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