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quantum electrodynamics

Idea

Quantum electrodynamics (“QED”) is the quantum field theory of electromagnetism: it describes the quantum theory of photons and electrons.

Related concepts

• quantum field theory

  • gauge theory

    • QED

    • QCD

References

A decent textbook discussion of the standard lore is in

• Eberhard Zeidler, Quantum field theory II: quantum electrodynamics – A bridge between mathematicians and physicists, Springer (2009)

A construction of QED in the context of AQFT is discussed in

• Michael Dütsch, Klaus Fredenhagen, A local (perturbative) construction of observables in gauge theores: the example of QED , Commun. Math. Phys. 203 (1999), no.1, 71-105, (arXiv:hep-th/9807078).