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The formulation of a relativistic quantum equation for the electron by Paul Dirac, as well as the works of Max Born, Werner Heisenberg, and Pascual Jordan on the quantization of the electromagnetic field as a system of harmonic oscillators—an idea anticipated earlier by Paul Ehrenfest—established the basis for the development of quantum electrodynamics—a relativistic theory describing the interaction of the quantized electromagnetic field with the electron–positron field.
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Chaichian, M., Perez Rojas, H., Tureanu, A. (2021). Quantum Electrodynamics. In: Basic Concepts in Physics. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-62313-8_7
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