Collected Papers of L.D. Landau

D. Ter Haar

• Publisher: Pergamon
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780080105864
• eBook ISBN: 9781483152707
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Energy

Collected Papers of L. D. Landau brings together the collected papers of L. D. Landau in the field of physics. The discussion is divided into the following sections: low-temperature physics (including superconductivity); solid-state physics; plasma physics; hydrodynamics; astrophysics; nuclear physics and cosmic rays; quantum mechanics; quantum field theory; and miscellaneous works. Topics covered include the intermediate state of supraconductors; the absorption of sound in solids; the properties of metals at very low temperatures; and production of showers by heavy particles. This volume is comprised of 100 chapters and begins with Landau's paper on the theory of the spectra of diatomic molecules, followed by his studies on the damping problem in wave mechanics; quantum electrodynamics in configuration space; electron motion in crystal lattices; and the internal temperature of stars. Some of Landau's theories, such as those of stars, energy transfer on collisions, phase transitions, and specific heat anomalies are discussed. Subsequent chapters focus on the structure of the undisplaced scattering line; the transport equation in the case of Coulomb interactions; scattering of light by light; and the origin of stellar energy. This book will be a valuable resource for physicists as well as physics students and researchers.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Collected Papers of L. D. Landau
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• PREFACE
• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 1. ON THE THEORY OF THE SPECTRA OF DIATOMIC MOLECULES
• CHAPTER 2. THE DAMPING PROBLEMIN WAVE MECHANICS
• CHAPTER 3. QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS IN CONFIGURATION SPACE
• CHAPTER 4. DIAMAGNETISM OF METALS
• CHAPTER 5. NOTE ON THE SCATTERING OF HARD GAMMA-RAYS
• CHAPTER 6. EXTENSION OF THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE TO RELATIVISTIC QUANTUM THEORY
• CHAPTER 7. A THEORY OF ENERGY TRANSFERON COLLISIONS
• CHAPTER 8. ON THE THEORY OF STARS
• CHAPTER 9. A THEORY OF ENERGY TRANSFER. II
• CHAPTER 10. ELECTRON MOTION IN CRYSTAL LATTICES
• CHAPTER 11. ON THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS AND THE UNIVERSE
• CHAPTER 12. A POSSIBLE EXPLANATION OF THE FIELD DEPENDENCE OF THE SUSCEPTIBILITY AT LOW TEMPERATURES
• CHAPTER 13. INTERNAL TEMPERATURE OF STARS
• CHAPTER 14. STRUCTURE OF THE UNDISPLACED SCATTERING LINE
• CHAPTER 15. ON THE THEORY OF THE SLOWING DOWN OF FAST ELECTRONS BY RADIATION
• CHAPTER 16. ON THE PRODUCTION OF ELECTRONS AND POSITRONS BY A COLLISION OF TWO PARTICLES
• CHAPTER 17. ON THE THEORY OF SPECIFIC HEAT ANOMALIES
• CHAPTER 18. ON THE THEORY OF THE DISPERSION OF MAGNETIC PERMEABILITYIN FERROMAGNETIC BODIES
• CHAPTER 19. ON THE RELATIVISTIC CORRECTION OF THE SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION FOR THE MANY-BODY PROBLEM
• CHAPTER 20. ON THE THEORY OF THE ACCOMMODATION COEFFICIENT
• CHAPTER 21. ON THE THEORY OF THE PHOTOELECTROMOTIVE FORCE IN SEMICONDUCTORS
• CHAPTER 22. ON THE THEORY OF SOUND DISPERSION
• CHAPTER 23. ON THE THEORY OF UNI-MOLECULAR REACTIONS
• CHAPTER 24. THE TRANSPORT EQUATION IN THE CASE OF COULOMB INTERACTIONS
• CHAPTER 25. ON THE PROPERTIES OF METALS AT VERY LOW TEMPERATURES
• CHAPTER 26. SCATTERING OF LIGHT BY LIGHT
• CHAPTER 27. ON THE ORIGIN OF STELLAR ENERGY
• CHAPTER 28. ON THE ABSORPTION OF SOUND IN SOLIDS
• CHAPTER 29. ON THE THEORY OF PHASE TRANSITIONS
• CHAPTER 30. ON THE THEORY OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
• CHAPTER 31. ON THE STATISTICAL THEORY OF NUCLEI
• CHAPTER 32. X-RAY SCATTERING BY CRYSTALS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF THE CURIE POINT
• CHAPTER 33. THE SCATTERING OF X-RAYS BY CRYSTALS WITH VARIABLE LAMELLAR STRUCTURE
• CHAPTER 34. PRODUCTION OF SHOWERS BY HEAVY PARTICLES
• CHAPTER 35. STABILITY OF NEON AND CARBON WITH RESPECT TO α-PARTICLE DISINTEGRATION
• CHAPTER 36. THE CASCADE THEORY OF ELECTRONIC SHOWERS
• CHAPTER 37. THE INTERMEDIATE STATE OF SUPRACONDUCTORS
• CHAPTER 38. ON THE DE HAAS—VAN ALPHEN EFFECT
• CHAPTER 39. ON THE POLARISATION OF ELECTRONSBY SCATTERING
• CHAPTER 40. ON THE NATURE OF THE NUCLEAR FORCES
• CHAPTER 41. ON THE "RADIUS" OF THE ELEMENTARYPARTICLES
• CHAPTER 42. ON THE SCATTERING OF MESOTRONSBY "NUCLEAR FORCES"
• CHAPTER 43. THE ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION OF THE SHOWER PARTICLES
• CHAPTER 44. ON THE THEORY OF SECONDARY SHOWERS
• CHAPTER 45. ON THE SCATTERING OF LIGHT BY MESOTRONS
• CHAPTER 46. THE THEORY OF SUPERFLUIDITY OF HELIUM II
• CHAPTER 47. A THEORY OF THE STABILITY OF STRONGLY CHARGED LYOPHOBIC SOLS AND THE COALESCENCE OF STRONGLY CHARGED PARTICLES IN ELECTROLYTIC SOLUTION
• CHAPTER 48. DRAGGING OF A LIQUID BY A MOVING PLATE
• CHAPTER 49. ON THE THEORY OF THE INTERMEDIATE STATE OF SUPERCONDUCTORS
• CHAPTER 50. ON THE RELATION BETWEEN THE LIQUIDAND THE GASEOUS STATES OF METALS
• CHAPTER 51. A NEW EXACT SOLUTION OF THENAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS
• CHAPTER 52. ON THE PROBLEM OF TURBULENCE
• CHAPTER 53. ON THE HYDRODYNAMICS OF HELIUM II
• CHAPTER 54. ON THE THEORY OF SLOW COMBUSTION
• CHAPTER 55. ON THE THEORY OF SCATTERING OF PROTONS BY PROTONS
• CHAPTER 56. ON THE ENERGY LOSS OF FAST PARTICLES BYIONISATION
• CHAPTER 57. ON A STUDY OF THE DETONATION OF CONDENSED EXPLOSIVES
• CHAPTER 58. THE DETERMINATION OF THE FLOW VELOCITY OF THE DETONATION PRODUCTSOF SOME GASEOUS MIXTURES
• CHAPTER 59. DETERMINATION OF THE FLOW VELOCITYOF THE DETONATION PRODUCTS OF CONDENSED EXPLOSIVES
• CHAPTER 60. ON SHOCK WAVES AT LARGE DISTANCES FROM THE PLACE OF THEIR ORIGIN
• CHAPTER 61. ON THE VIBRATIONS OF THE ELECTRONIC PLASMA
• CHAPTER 62. ON THE THERMODYNAMICS OF PHOTOLUMINESCENCE
• CHAPTER 63. ON THE THEORY OF SUPERFLUIDITY OF HELIUM II
• CHAPTER 64. ON THE MOTION OF FOREIGN PARTICLES IN HELIUM II
• CHAPTER 65. ON THE ANGULAR MOMENTUM OF A SYSTEM OF TWO PHOTONS
• CHAPTER 66. ON THE THEORY OF SUPERFLUIDITY
• CHAPTER 67. THE EFFECTIVE MASS OF THE POLARON
• CHAPTER 68. ON THE THEORY OF ENERGY TRANSFER DURING COLLISIONS III
• CHAPTER 69. THE THEORY OF THE VISCOSITY OF HELIUM II: I. COLLISIONS OF ELEMENTARY EXCITATIONS IN HELIUM II
• CHAPTER 70. THE THEORY OF THE VISCOSITYOF HELIUM II II. CALCULATION OF THE VISCOSITY COEFFICIENT
• CHAPTER 71. ON THE ELECTRON-POSITRON INTERACTION
• CHAPTER 72. THE EQUILIBRIUM FORM OF CRYSTALS
• CHAPTER 73. ON THE THEORY OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
• CHAPTER 74. ON MULTIPLE PRODUCTION OF PARTICLESDURING COLLISIONS OF FAST PARTICLES
• CHAPTER 75. THE LIMITS OF APPLICABILITY OF THE THEORY OF BREMSSTRAHLUNGBY ELECTRONS AND OF THE CREATIONOF PAIRS AT LARGE ENERGIES
• CHAPTER 76. ELECTRON-CASCADE PROCESSESAT ULTRA-HIGH ENERGIES
• CHAPTER 77. EMISSION OF y-QUANTA DURING THE COLLISION OF FAST π-MESONS WITH NUCLEONS
• CHAPTER 78. THE REMOVAL OF INFINITIES IN QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS
• CHAPTER 79. AN ASYMPTOTIC EXPRESSION FOR THE ELECTRON GREEN FUNCTION IN QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS
• CHAPTER 80. AN ASYMPTOTIC EXPRESSION FOR THE PHOTON GREEN FUNCTION IN QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS
• CHAPTER 81. THE ELECTRON MASS IN QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS
• CHAPTER 82. ON THE ANOMALOUS ABSORPTION OF SOUND NEAR A SECOND ORDER PHASE TRANSITION POINT
• CHAPTER 83. A STUDY OF FLOW SINGULARITIES USING THE EULER-TRICOMI EQUATION
• CHAPTER 84. ON THE QUANTUM THEORY OF FIELDS
• CHAPTER 85. ON THE ROTATION OF LIQUID HELIUM
• CHAPTER 86. ON POINT INTERACTIONS IN QUANTUM ELECTRO DYNAMICS
• CHAPTER 87. THE GAUGE TRANSFORMATION OF THE GREEN FUNCTION FOR CHARGED PARTICLES
• CHAPTER 88. A HYDRODYNAMIC THEORY OF MULTIPLE FORMATION OF PARTICLES
• CHAPTER 89. ON THE QUANTUM THEORY OF FIELDS
• CHAPTER 90. THE THEORY OF A FERMI LIQUID
• CHAPTER 91. OSCILLATIONS IN A FERMI LIQUID
• CHAPTER 92. ON THE CONSERVATION LAWS FOR WEAK INTERACTIONS
• CHAPTER 93. HYDRODYNAMIC FLUCTUATIONS
• CHAPTER 94. THE PROPERTIES OF THE GREEN FUNCTION FOR PARTICLES IN STATISTICS
• CHAPTER 95. ON THE THEORY OF THE FERMI LIQUID
• CHAPTER 96. POSSIBILITY OF FORMULATION OF A THEORY OF STRONGLY INTERACTING FERMIONS
• CHAPTER 97. NUMERICAL METHODS OF INTEGRATING DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS BY THE MESH METHOD
• CHAPTER 98. ON ANALYTIC PROPERTIES OF VERTEX PARTS IN QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
• CHAPTER 99. SMALL BINDING ENERGIES IN QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
• CHAPTER 100. FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS
• APPENDIX A
• APPENDIX B: PAPERS NOT INCLUDED IN THE COLLECTED PAPERS