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Spinors in Physics

By Jean Hladik (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York
Year
1999
ISBN
978-1-4612-7163-5, 978-1-4612-1488-5
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4612-1488-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (16588350 bytes)
Series
Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics
Edition
1
Pages
226\227
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
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Description

Invented by Dirac in creating his relativistic quantum theory of the electron, spinors are important in quantum theory, relativity, nuclear physics, atomic and molecular physics, and condensed matter physics. Essentially, they are the mathematical entities that correspond to electrons in the same way that ordinary wave functions correspond to classical particles (including photons). Because of their relations to the rotation group SO(n) and the unitary group SU(n), the discussion should be of interest to applied mathematicians as well as physicists.

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