• In theoretical physics, scalar electrodynamics is a theory of a U(1) gauge field coupled to a charged spin 0 scalar field that takes the place of the...
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  • of scalar electrodynamics, the practical utility for particles like pions is limited. There is a second version of the equation for a complex scalar field...
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    In particle physics, quantum electrodynamics (QED) is the relativistic quantum field theory of electrodynamics. In essence, it describes how light and...
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    assumed to be zero. In electrodynamics, when time-varying fields are present, the electric field cannot be expressed only as a scalar potential. Instead,...
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  • theoretical physics, scalar field theory can refer to a relativistically invariant classical or quantum theory of scalar fields. A scalar field is invariant...
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    Magnetic scalar potential, ψ, is a quantity in classical electromagnetism analogous to electric potential. It is used to specify the magnetic H-field in...
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    OCLC 7462032. Crispino, L. C. B.; Higuchi, A.; Matsas, G. E. A. (November 1999). "Scalar radiation emitted from a source rotating around a black hole". Classical...
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    are instead a classical limit of the more precise theory of quantum electrodynamics. Gauss's law describes the relationship between an electric field and...
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    theory. For example, quantizing classical electrodynamics gives quantum electrodynamics. Quantum electrodynamics is arguably the most successful scientific...
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  • of α ( x ) {\displaystyle \alpha (x)} . The fix proceeds as in scalar electrodynamics: the partial derivative is promoted to a covariant derivative D...
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    strength tensor exactly as in electrodynamics, one obtains the Lagrangian used as the starting point in quantum electrodynamics. L QED = ψ ¯ ( i ℏ c γ μ D...
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  • and scalar Yukawa model Scalar and gauge Scalar electrodynamics Scalar chromodynamics Yang–Mills–Higgs Spinor and gauge Quantum electrodynamics (QED)...
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    Classical electromagnetism or classical electrodynamics is a branch of physics focused on the study of interactions between electric charges and currents...
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  • The theory was inspired by the Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory for electrodynamics. When Richard Feynman, as a graduate student, lectured on the Wheeler–Feynman...
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    Introduction to Electrodynamics (3rd ed.). Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-805326-0. Jackson, John D. (1998). Classical Electrodynamics (3rd ed.). Wiley...
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    different objects such as vectors, scalars, and even other tensors. There are many types of tensors, including scalars and vectors (which are the simplest...
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    describable in terms of a scalar potential and corresponding vector potential. In electrodynamics, the electromagnetic scalar and vector potentials are...
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  • scalar chromodynamics, also known as scalar quantum chromodynamics or scalar QCD, is a gauge theory consisting of a gauge field coupled to a scalar field...
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  • , … , x n ) {\displaystyle \psi (x_{1},\ldots ,x_{n})} , also called a scalar field, the gradient is the vector field: ∇ ψ = ( ∂ ∂ x 1 , … , ∂ ∂ x n )...
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    century showed that classical electrodynamics is already consistent with special relativity, and extended classical electrodynamics to work with quantum mechanics...
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    D. J. E.; Petronzio, R. (1986). "Can elementary scalar particles exist?: (II). Scalar electrodynamics". Nuclear Physics B. 277 (1): 50–66. Bibcode:1986NuPhB...
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    Quantum Electrodynamics : A Sourcebook, Cambridge University Press (1995) ISBN 0-521-56891-9 Schwinger, Julian; Selected Papers on Quantum Electrodynamics, Dover...
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    Weber electrodynamics is a theory of electromagnetism that preceded Maxwell electrodynamics and was replaced by it by the end of the 19th century. Weber...
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  • fields, which include scalar and vector fields as special cases. For example, if there are m {\displaystyle m} real-valued scalar fields, φ 1 , … , φ m...
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    electron self-mass – have persisted in classical electrodynamics for seventy and in quantum electrodynamics for some thirty-five years. These long years of...
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  • In theoretical physics, a scalar–tensor theory is a field theory that includes both a scalar field and a tensor field to represent a certain interaction...
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    Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies". Einstein applied the Lorentz transformations known to be compatible with Maxwell's equations for electrodynamics to...
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  • Computational electromagnetics (CEM), computational electrodynamics or electromagnetic modeling is the process of modeling the interaction of electromagnetic...
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    the electromagnetic field can be derived. It combines both an electric scalar potential and a magnetic vector potential into a single four-vector. As...
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    Introduction to Electrodynamics (3rd ed.). Prentice Hall. ISBN 013805326X. Moon, Parry; Spencer, Domina Eberle (2013). Foundations of Electrodynamics. Dover Publications...
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