Quantum Fields and Processes
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Quantum Fields and Processes

A Combinatorial Approach

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Quantum Fields and Processes

A Combinatorial Approach

About this book

Wick ordering of creation and annihilation operators is of fundamental importance for computing averages and correlations in quantum field theory and, by extension, in the Hudson–Parthasarathy theory of quantum stochastic processes, quantum mechanics, stochastic processes, and probability. This book develops the unified combinatorial framework behind these examples, starting with the simplest mathematically, and working up to the Fock space setting for quantum fields. Emphasizing ideas from combinatorics such as the role of lattice of partitions for multiple stochastic integrals by Wallstrom–Rota and combinatorial species by Joyal, it presents insights coming from quantum probability. It also introduces a 'field calculus' which acts as a succinct alternative to standard Feynman diagrams and formulates quantum field theory (cumulant moments, Dyson–Schwinger equation, tree expansions, 1-particle irreducibility) in this language. Featuring many worked examples, the book is aimed at mathematical physicists, quantum field theorists, and probabilists, including graduate and advanced undergraduate students.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series information
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright information
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of contents
  8. Preface
  9. Notation
  10. 1 Introduction to Combinatorics
  11. 2 Probabilistic Moments and Cumulants
  12. 3 Quantum Probability
  13. 4 Quantum Fields
  14. 5 Combinatorial Species
  15. 6 Combinatorial Aspects of Quantum Fields: Feynman Diagrams
  16. 7 Entropy, Large Deviations, and Legendre Transforms
  17. 8 Introduction to Fock Spaces
  18. 9 Operators and Fields on the Boson Fock Space
  19. 10 L[sup(2)]-Representations of the Boson Fock Space
  20. 11 Local Fields on the Boson Fock Space: Free Fields
  21. 12 Local Interacting Boson Fields
  22. 13 Quantum Stochastic Calculus
  23. 14 Quantum Stochastic Limits
  24. References
  25. Index