Quantum Field Theory
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Quantum Field Theory

An Integrated Approach

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eBook - PDF

Quantum Field Theory

An Integrated Approach

About this book

The only graduate-level textbook on quantum field theory that fully integrates perspectives from high-energy, condensed-matter, and statistical physics

Quantum field theory was originally developed to describe quantum electrodynamics and other fundamental problems in high-energy physics, but today has become an invaluable conceptual and mathematical framework for addressing problems across physics, including in condensed-matter and statistical physics. With this expansion of applications has come a new and deeper understanding of quantum field theory—yet this perspective is still rarely reflected in teaching and textbooks on the subject. Developed from a year-long graduate course Eduardo Fradkin has taught for years to students of high-energy, condensed-matter, and statistical physics, this comprehensive textbook provides a fully "multicultural" approach to quantum field theory, covering the full breadth of its applications in one volume.

  • Brings together perspectives from high-energy, condensed-matter, and statistical physics in both the main text and exercises
  • Takes students from basic techniques to the frontiers of physics
  • Pays special attention to the relation between measurements and propagators and the computation of cross sections and response functions
  • Focuses on renormalization and the renormalization group, with an emphasis on fixed points, scale invariance, and their role in quantum field theory and phase transitions
  • Other topics include non-perturbative phenomena, anomalies, and conformal invariance
  • Features numerous examples and extensive problem sets
  • Also serves as an invaluable resource for researchers

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface and Acknowledgments
  4. 1. Introduction to Field Theory
  5. 2. Classical Field Theory
  6. 3. Classical Symmetries and Conservation Laws
  7. 4. Canonical Quantization
  8. 5. Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory
  9. 6. Nonrelativistic Field Theory
  10. 7. Quantization of the Free Dirac Field
  11. 8. Coherent-State Path-Integral Quantization of Quantum Field Theory
  12. 9. Quantization of Gauge Fields
  13. 10. Observables and Propagators
  14. 11. Perturbation Theory and Feynman Diagrams
  15. 12. Vertex Functions, the Effective Potential, and Symmetry Breaking
  16. 13. Perturbation Theory, Regularization, and Renormalization
  17. 14. Quantum Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics
  18. 15. The Renormalization Group
  19. 16. The Perturbative Renormalization Group
  20. 17. The 1/N Expansions
  21. 18. Phases of Gauge Theories
  22. 19. Instantons and Solitons
  23. 20. Anomalies in Quantum Field Theory
  24. 21. Conformal Field Theory
  25. 22. Topological Field Theory
  26. References
  27. Index