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Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur
Instantons, tunnelling and the end of the world
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Author(s):
Tom Lancaster
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Stephen J. Blundell
Publication date:
April 17 2014
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
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April 17 2014
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DOI:
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199699322.003.0051
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Book chapters
pp. 1
Overture
pp. 10
Lagrangians
pp. 19
Simple harmonic oscillators
pp. 28
Occupation number representation
pp. 37
Making second quantization work
pp. 50
Continuous systems
pp. 59
A first stab at relativistic quantum mechanics
pp. 64
Examples of Lagrangians, or how to write down a theory
pp. 72
The passage of time
pp. 79
Quantum mechanical transformations
pp. 90
Symmetry
pp. 98
Canonical quantization of fields
pp. 109
Examples of canonical quantization
pp. 117
Fields with many components and massive electromagnetism
pp. 126
Gauge fields and gauge theory
pp. 135
Discrete transformations
pp. 144
Propagators and Green’s functions
pp. 154
Propagators and fields
pp. 165
The S-matrix
pp. 175
Expanding the S-matrix: Feynman diagrams
pp. 188
Scattering theory
pp. 196
Statistical physics: a crash course
pp. 201
The generating functional for fields
pp. 210
Path integrals: I said to him, ‘You’re crazy’
pp. 221
Field integrals
pp. 228
Statistical field theory
pp. 237
Broken symmetry
pp. 247
Coherent states
pp. 255
Grassmann numbers: coherent states and the path integral for fermions
pp. 260
Topological objects
pp. 267
Topological field theory
pp. 274
Renormalization, quasiparticles and the Fermi surface
pp. 285
Renormalization: the problem and its solution
pp. 295
Renormalization in action: propagators and Feynman diagrams
pp. 302
The renormalization group
pp. 313
Ferromagnetism: a renormalization group tutorial
pp. 322
The Dirac equation
pp. 336
How to transform a spinor
pp. 341
The quantum Dirac field
pp. 348
A rough guide to quantum electrodynamics
pp. 355
QED scattering: three famous cross-sections
pp. 360
The renormalization of QED and two great results
pp. 370
Superfluids
pp. 380
The many-body problem and the metal
pp. 400
Superconductors
pp. 411
The fractional quantum Hall fluid
pp. 424
Non-abelian gauge theory
pp. 433
The Weinberg–Salam model
pp. 444
Majorana fermions
pp. 451
Magnetic monopoles
pp. 457
Instantons, tunnelling and the end of the world
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