Appendix: References on self-field quantum electrodynamics

from A.O. Barut, “Brief History and Recent Developments in Electron Theory and Quantum Electrodynamics” in The Electron, D. Hestenes and A. Weingartshofer eds. (1991).

  1. Nonperturbative QED: The Lamb Shift, A.O. Barut and J. Kraus, Found. of Physics, 13, 189 (1983).
  2. QED based on self-energy: Lamb shift and spontaneous emission without field quantization, A.O.Barut and J.F. van Huele, Phys. Rev. A, 32, 3887 (1985)
  3. QED based on self-energy versus quantization of fields: Illustration by a simple model. A.O. Barut, Phys. Rev. A, 34, 3502 (1986)
  4. An exactly soluble relativistic quantum two-fermion problem. A.O. Barut and N. Ünal, J. Math. Phys., 27, 3055 (1986)
  5. A new approach to bound state QED. I. Theory, Physica Scripta, 142A, 457 (1987), II. Spectra of positronium, muonium and Hydrogen. A.O. Barut and N.Ünal, Physica, 142A, 488 (1987)
  6. An approach to finite non-perturbative QED. A.O. Barut in “Proc. 2nd Intern. Symposium on Foundations of Quantum Mech.”, Phys. Soc. of Japan, 1986, p. 323.
  7. On the treatment of Møller and Breit potentials and the covariant 2-body equation for positronium and muonium, A.O. Barut, Physica Scripta, 36, 493 (1987)
  8. On the covariance of two-fermion equation, A.O. Barut, in “Constraint theory and Relativistic dynamics”, (L. Lusanna et al, eds.) World Scientific, 1987; p. 122
  9. Formulation of nonperturbative QED as a nonlinear first quantized classical field theory, A.O. Barut in “Differential Geometric Methods in Theoretical Physics”, (H. Doebner et al, eds.), World Scientific 1987; p. 51
  10. QED based on self-energy: Spontaneous emission in cavities, A.O. Barut and J.P. Dowling, Phys. Rev. A, 36, 649 (1987)
  11. QED based on self-energy, without second quantization: The Lamb shift and long-range Casimir-Polder van der Waals forces near boundaries, A.O. Barut and J.P. Dowling, Phys. Rev. A, 36, 2550 (1987)
  12. QED based on selfenergy, A.O. Barut, Physica Scripta, T21, 18 (1988)
  13. Relativistic theory of spontaneous emission, A.O. Barut and Y. Salamin, Phys. Rev. A, 37, 2284 (1988)
  14. QED based on self-fields, without second quantization: A nonrelativistic calculation of g - 2, A.O. Barut, J.P. Dowling and J.F. van Huele, Phys. Rev. A, 38, 4405 (1988)
  15. QED based on self-fields, without second quantization: Apparatus dependent contributions to g - 2, A.O. Barut and J.P. Dowling, Phys. Rev. A, 38, 2796 (1989)
  16. QED based on self fields, A Relativistic calculation of (g - 2), A.O. Barut and J.P. Dowling, Zeits. f. Naturf, 44A, 1051 (1989)
  17. Path integral formulation of QED from classical particle trajectories, A.O. Barut and I.H. Duru, Phys. Reports, 172, 1-32 (1989)
  18. Problème relativiste á deux corps en électyrodynamique quantique, Heelv. Phys. Acta, 62, 436 (1989)
  19. Self-field QED: The two-level atom, A.O. Barut and J.P. Dowling, Phys. Rev. A, 41, 2284 (1990)
  20. QED based on self-fields: On the origin of thermal radiation detected by an accelerating observer, A.O. Barut and J.P. Dowling, Phys. Rev. A, 41, 2227 (1990)
  21. Relativistic Spontaneous emission in Heisenberg representation. A.O. Barut and Y. Salamin, Z. f. Physik D, (in press)
  22. QED based on self-energy: The relativistic 2S1/2 → 1S1/2 + 1γ decay rates of hydrogen-like atoms, A.O. Barut and Y. Salamin, Phys. Rev. A, 43, 2524 (1991)
  23. QED-The unfinished business, A.O. Barut in “Proc. III. Conf. Math. Physics” (World Scientific, 1990) (F. Hussain, ed.) p. 493
  24. A regularized analytic evaluation of vacuum polarization in Coulomb field, A.O. Barut and Ünal, Phys. Ret. D, 41, 3822 (1990)
  25. The Foundations of Self-field Quantumelectrodynamics, A.O. Barut in “New Frontiers of Quantumelectrodynamics and Quantumoptics”, (edited by A.O. Barut), Plenum Press, NY 1990
  26. QED Based on Self-fields: Cavity effects, J.P. Dowling, ibid
  27. Fundamental Symmetries of Quantumelectrodynamics in Symmetry in Science III, Plenum Press 1989 (ed. B. Gruber), p. 3-13
  28. QED in Non-Simply Connected Regions, A. O. Barut and I. H. Duru, Quantum Optics
  29. Contribution of the individual discrete levels to the Lamb shift in hydrogenic atoms, A. O. Barut, B. Blaive and R. Boudet J. Phys. B.
  30. Interpretation of self-field QED, A. O. Barut and J. P. Dowling Phys. Rev. A, 43, 4060 (1991)
  31. Is Second Quantization Necessary? in Quantum Theory and the Structure of Space and Time, Vol. 6 (edited by L. Castell and C. F. vm Weizsäcker), Hanser Verlag, Munchen 1986; p. 83-90.