Quantum Field Theory

An Introduction

Gordon Walter Semenoff (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

403 Seiten

2024
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-99-5412-4 (ISBN)

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This book is a pedagogical introduction to quantum field theory, suitable for a students’ first exposure to the subject. It assumes a minimal amount of technical background and it is intended to be accessible to a wide audience including students of theoretical and experimental high energy physics, condensed matter, optical, atomic, nuclear and gravitational physics and astrophysics. It includes a thorough development of second quantization and the field theoretic approach to nonrelativistic many-body physics as a step in developing a broad-based working knowledge of the basic aspects of quantum field theory. It presents a logical and systematic first principles development of relativistic field theory and of functional techniques and perturbation theory with Feynman diagrams, renormalization, and basic computations in quantum electrodynamics.

Gordon W. Semenoff is Professor at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. His research examines the nature at its most fundamental level. His recent interests have been in superstring theory and duality of string theories with strongly coupled gauge field theories and in quantum gravity. He is also interested in quantum information theoretic questions in quantum field theory.

1. Prologue.- 2. Many particle physics as a quantum ﬁeld theory.- 3. Degenerate Fermi and Bose gases.- 4. The action principle and Noether’s theorem.- 5. Non-relativistic space-time symmetries.- 6. Space-time symmetry and relativistic ﬁeld theory.- 7. The real scalar quantum ﬁeld theory.- 8. Emergent relativistic symmetry.- 9. The Dirac ﬁeld theory.- 10. Photons.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.11.2024
Reihe/Serie	Graduate Texts in Physics
Zusatzinfo	5 Illustrations, color; 35 Illustrations, black and white; X, 403 p. 40 illus., 5 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Hochenergiephysik / Teilchenphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Theoretische Physik
Schlagworte	Dirac Field • Elastic scattering • Fermi and Bose gases • Feynman diagrams • Goldstone’s Theorem • many particle physics • Non-relativistic space-time • Photon Hamiltonian • quantum electrodynamics • Relativistic symmetry • Renormalization Group • Second Quantization
ISBN-10	981-99-5412-6 / 9819954126
ISBN-13	978-981-99-5412-4 / 9789819954124
Zustand	Neuware