LANDAU, LEV (+) RUDOLF PEIERLS.
Erweiterung des Unbestimmtheitsprinzips für die relativistische Quantentheorie.
Berlin, Springer 1931.
8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 69, 1931. Entire issue offered. Stamp to front free end-paper and titlepage, otherwise fine and clean. pp.56-69. [Entire volume: VII, (1), 861 pp.].
First printing of Landau and Peierls's important paper in the development of quantum field theory. The present paper became seminal for Bohr and Rosenfeld's 1933 paper which is often credited with having laid the foundation for quantum electrodynamics. Landau and Peierls published a critical analysis of the consequences of such limitations in a relativistic quantum theory of fields (second paper offered). Landau and Peierls came to the negative conclusion that in several cases, the concept of momentum was without physical meaning and quantities such as the strength of a field was un-measurable.
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