Proceedings of the Julian Schwinger Centennial Conference : 7-12 February 2018, National University of Singapore

336 Pages·2020·29.563 MB·English

by  Englert, Berthold-Georg, Schwinger, Julian

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Cover image: Informal portrait of Julian Schwinger (AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Segre Collection)
JULIAN SCHWINGER CENTENNIAL CONFERENCE
Proceedings of the Julian Schwinger Centennial Conference
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DedicatedtothememoryofJulianSchwinger,physicistandgentleman
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Contents
Dedication v
Preface x
1. Thegfactorofanelectroninhydrogenlikecarbonandtheprecision
determinationoftheelectronmass 1
JonathanSapirstein
2. Themagnetoelectriccouplinginelectrodynamics 9
A.Mart´ın-Ruiz,M.CambiasoandL.F.Urrutia
3. RemarksontheAbraham–Minkowskiproblem,inrelationtorecentradiation
pressureexperiments 31
IverBrevik
4. Manifestnon-localityinquantummechanics,quantumfieldtheoryand
quantumgravity 43
LaurentFreidel,RobertG.LeighandDjordjeMinic
5. Unruhaccelerationradiationrevisited 61
J.S.Ben-Benjamin,M.O.Scully,S.A.Fulling,D.M.Lee,D.N.Page,
A.A.Svidzinsky,M.S.Zubairy,M.J.Duff,R.Glauber,W.P.Schleichand
W.G.Unruh
6. Non-thermalfixedpoints: Universaldynamicsfarfromequilibrium 89
Christian-MarcelSchmied,AleksandrN.MikheevandThomasGasenzer
7. Baryonisospinmasssplittings 129
Lai-HimChan
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8. MultiquarkstatesintheThomas−Fermiquarkmodelandonthelattice 141
WalterWilcoxandSumanBaral
9. Aredyonsthepreonsoftheknotmodel? 155
RobertJ.Finkelstein
10. TheSchwinger−DeWittpropertimealgorithm: Ahistory 175
StevenM.Christensen
11. FromJuliantoJupiter: Unanticipatedoutcomes 193
MargaretKivelson
12. JulianSchwinger—Recollectionsfrommanydecades 201
StanleyDeser
13. Schwingerians 207
CharlesSommerfield
14. Drell−Yanmechanismanditsimplications 213
Tung-MowYan
15. MyyearswithJulianSchwinger: Fromsourcetheorythrough
sonoluminescence 221
KimballA.Milton
16. Thestatisticalatom 237
JulianSchwingerandBerthold-GeorgEnglert
17. JulianSchwingerandthesemiclassicalatom 261
Berthold-GeorgEnglert
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18. FondmemoriesofJulianandClarice,especiallyinvolvingMosheFlato
andNorikoSakurai 271
DanielSternheimer
19. SpeechesbyV.F.Weisskopf,J.H.VanVleck,I.I.Rabi,M.Hamermesh,
B.T.Feld,R.P.Feynman,andD.Saxon,giveninhonorofJulianSchwinger
athis60thbirthday 285
Berthold-GeorgEnglertandKimballA.Milton