Pauli And The Spin-statistics Theorem
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Pauli And The Spin-statistics Theorem

  1. 524 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Pauli And The Spin-statistics Theorem

About this book

This book makes broadly accessible an understandable proof of the infamous spin-statistics theorem. This widely known but little-understood theorem is intended to explain the fact that electrons obey the Pauli exclusion principle. This fact, in turn, explains the periodic table of the elements and their chemical properties. Therefore, this one simply stated fact is responsible for many of the principal features of our universe, from chemistry to solid state physics to nuclear physics to the life cycle of stars.In spite of its fundamental importance, it is only a slight exaggeration to say that "everyone knows the spin-statistics theorem, but no one understands it". This book simplifies and clarifies the formal statements of the theorem, and also corrects the invariably flawed intuitive explanations which are frequently put forward.The book will be of interest to many practising physicists in all fields who have long been frustrated by the impenetrable discussions on the subject which have been available until now. It will also be accessible to students at an advanced undergraduate level as an introduction to modern physics based directly on the classical writings of the founders, including Pauli, Dirac, Heisenberg, Einstein and many others.

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Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. Authors
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Foreword
  5. Chapter 1 Discovery of the Exclusion Principle
  6. Chapter 2 The Discovery of the Electron Spin-1/2
  7. Chapter 3 Bose-Einstein Statistics
  8. Chapter 4 Wave Function of State of Many Identical Particles
  9. Chapter 5 Fermi-Dirac Statistics
  10. Chapter 6 Dirac's Invention of Quantum Field Theory
  11. Chapter 7 The Jordan-Wigner Invention of Anticommutation for Fermi-Dirac Fields
  12. Chapter 8 From Hole Theory to Positrons
  13. Chapter 9 Pauli-Weisskopf Canonical Quantization of the Klein-Gordon Field
  14. Chapter 10 Pauli's First Proof of the Spin-Statistics Theorem
  15. Chapter 11 Fierz's Proof of the Spin-Statistics Theorem
  16. Chapter 12 Belinfante's Proof of the Spin-Statistics Theorem
  17. Chapter 13 deWet's Proof Based on Canonical Field Theory
  18. Chapter 14 Pauli's Proof of the Spin-Statistics Theorem
  19. Chapter 15 Feynman's Proof and Pauli's Criticism
  20. Chapter 16 Schwinger's Proof Using Time-Reversal Invariance
  21. Chapter 17 The Proofs of Lűders and Zumino, and of Burgoyne
  22. Chapter 18 The Hall-Wightman Theorem
  23. Chapter 19 Schwinger, Euclidean Field Theory, Source Theory, and the Spin-Statistics Connection
  24. Chapter 20 Responses to Neuenschwander's Question
  25. Chapter 21 Overview and Epilog
  26. Index