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The main concepts of quantum electrodynamics: duality of fields and particles, field quanta, antiparticles, creation and annihilation of particles, reactions based on a coupling, these concepts are common for all quantum field theory. Roots and germs of them we find already in the early history of quantum physics.
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Hund, F. (1983). Early Germs of Quantum Field Theory in the History of Quantum Physics. In: Greiner, W. (eds) Quantum Electrodynamics of Strong Fields. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 80. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2139-0_37
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