Longhorn

1. Does anyone know when and who published the first paper on "Quantum fluctuation" of particles?

2. Is it available on the Internet?

3. Might it be possible to find it in the university library?

4. Could you provide one or more internet sites that keep papers published on Quantum mechanics?

Thanks.

Liquidrage

I would consider M. J. Sparnaay to be the source of Zero point energy though it is hard to credit only one source.

One could say that is it a natural extension of the <a href="http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~imamura/208/jan27/hup.html" target="_blank">Uncertainty Principle</a> which is credited to Heisenberg

The next step would belong to Hendrick B. G. Casimir, who in 1948 showed the existence of a force between two uncharged plates which arose from electromagnetic energy surrounding the plates in a vacuum

The above work was furthered by M. J. Sparnaay by showing classical electromagnetic zero point energy.

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Steven S

Probably Dirac was the first to postulate the existence of particle/anti particle creation & annihiliation but if it wasn't him it had to have been Schwinger, Feynman, and Tomonoga. I don't know the history too well. See Schweber's QED and the Men Who Made it book.

I really don't know you want the original papers. It would be better to start off with a quantum mechanics textbook like Shankar's book and then read a quantum field theory book like Peskin & Schroeder's in parrallel with a nice particle phenomenology book like Griffiths.

<a href="http://xxx.lanl.gov" target="_blank">http://xxx.lanl.gov</a>

Steven S

Longhorn

Thank you both. I appreciate your suggestions.