Overview
- A modern, accessible, inclusive, first principles introduction to quantum field theory
- Provides a basic working knowledge of field theory, functional methods and Feynman diagrams
- Introduces renormalization, the renormalization group and the basics of quantum electrodynamics
Part of the book series: Graduate Texts in Physics (GTP)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Quantum Field Theory
Book Subtitle: An Introduction
Authors: Gordon Walter Semenoff
Series Title: Graduate Texts in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5410-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-5409-4Published: 15 November 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-5412-4Due: 16 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-5410-0Published: 14 November 2023
Series ISSN: 1868-4513
Series E-ISSN: 1868-4521
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 403
Number of Illustrations: 35 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Physics, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Quantum Physics