QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS

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Meaning:

A relativistic quantum theory of the electromagnetic interactions of photons and electrons and muons

Synonyms:

QED; quantum electrodynamics

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Hypernyms ("quantum electrodynamics" is a kind of...):

quantum field theory (the branch of quantum physics that is concerned with the theory of fields; it was motivated by the question of how an atom radiates light as its electrons jump from excited states)

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