nLab Julian Schwinger

• webpage

• Steve Nadis, Julian Schwinger: A Centennial Celebration at Harvard (arXiv:1812.04123)

Selected writings

Introducing adiabatic switching:

• B. A. Lippmann, Julian Schwinger, Variational Principles for Scattering Processes. I, Phys. Rev. 79, 469 (1950) (doi:10.1103/PhysRev.79.469)

Introducing the Schwinger effect of vacuum polarization:

• Julian Schwinger, On Gauge Invariance and Vacuum Polarization, Phys. Rev. 82, 664 (1951) (doi:10.1103/PhysRev.82.664)

On effective field theory-foundations of nuclear physics (introducing, among other things, the concept of the sigma-meson):

• Julian Schwinger, A Theory of the Fundamental Interactions, Annals Phys. 2 (1957) 407-434 (spire:12286)

On Dirac charge quantization:

• Julian Schwinger, Magnetic Charge and Quantum Field Theory, Phys. Rev. 144 (1966) 1087 [doi:10.1103/PhysRev.144.1087]

Proposing a new “algebra of (selective) measurement” in quantum physics (later argued to be groupoid convolution algebra):

• Julian Schwinger: Quantum Kinematics and Dynamics, CRC Press (1969, 1991) [ISBN:9780738203034, pdf]

• Julian Schwinger (ed.: Berthold-Georg Englert): Quantum Mechanics – Symbolism of Atomic Measurements, Springer (2001) [doi:10.1007/978-3-662-04589-3]

On classical electrodynamics:

• Julian Schwinger et al., Classical Electrodynamics, based on Schwinger’s 1976 lecture, Routledge (1999) [ISBN:9780738200569, pdf]

Related entries

• perturbative quantum field theory

• Schwinger-Tomonaga-Feynman-Dyson

• quantum electrodynamics

• adiabatic switching

• Tomonaga-Schwinger equation

• Schwinger-Keldysh formalism

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