THE LANDAU-PEIERLS WAVE FUNCTION

LANDAU, L. (+) R PEIERLS.

Quantenelektrodynamik im Konfigurationsraum.

Berlin, Springer, 1930. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering, In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Band 62, 1930. Entire issue offered. Two stamps to title page, otherwise fine. Pp. 188-200. [Entire volume :VIII, 801 pp].

First printing of this important paper containing the first appearance of the Landau-Peierls wave function. "Landau and Peierls argued that field measurements could not be performed unambiguously and hence that current quantum electrodynamics was inconsistent. The Landau-Peierls criticism caused concern until 1933, when Bohr and Rosenfeld showed that the consequences of quantrum electrodynamics were consistent with the best possible measurements of electromagnetic field quantities. (Kragh, Quantum Generations).

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