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- Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- How to read this book
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Physical Problem of Light and Matter
- Chapter 2: Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Its Limits
- Chapter 3: Classical Fields, Symmetries, and Noether Structure
- Chapter 4: Quantizing Free Fields
- Chapter 5: The Dirac Field in Detail
- Chapter 6: The Electromagnetic Field and Gauge Redundancy
- Chapter 7: Building the QED Lagrangian
- Chapter 8: Perturbation Theory and the S-Matrix
- Chapter 9: Feynman Rules for QED
- Chapter 10: Tree-Level Scattering and Decay Processes
- Chapter 11: Ward Identities and Gauge Invariance in Amplitudes
- Chapter 12: Functional Methods and Generating Functionals
- Chapter 13: Gauge Fixing, Ghosts, and Covariant Quantization
- Chapter 14: One-Loop QED: Vacuum Polarization, Self-Energy, and Vertex Correction
- Chapter 15: Regularization and Renormalization
- Chapter 16: The Renormalization Group and Running Coupling
- Chapter 17: Infrared Physics and Soft Photons
- Chapter 18: Bound States and Nonrelativistic QED
- Chapter 19: Precision Tests: Anomalous Magnetic Moment and Lamb Shift
- Chapter 20: Discrete Symmetries and Spinor Observables
- Chapter 21: External Fields and Strong-Field QED
- Chapter 22: Anomalies and the Axial Current
- Chapter 23: QED as an Effective Field Theory
- Chapter 24: Mastering QED Calculations
- Conclusion
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