The rise of quantum electrodynamics (QED) made possible a number of excellent textbooks on quantum field theory in the 1960s. However, the rise of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and the Standard Model has made it urgent to have a fully modern textbook for the 1990s and beyond. Building on the foundati
A modern introduction to quantum field theory
โ Scribed by Michele Maggiore
- Book ID
- 127431541
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Series
- Oxford master series in physics 12
- Category
- Library
- City
- Oxford; New York
- ISBN-13
- 9780198520733
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โฆ Synopsis
The importance and the beauty of modern quantum field theory resides in the power and variety of its methods and ideas, which find application in domains as different as particle physics, cosmology, condensed matter, statistical mechanics and critical phenomena. This book introduces the reader to the modern developments in a manner which assumes no previous knowledge of quantum field theory. Along with standard topics like Feynman diagrams, the book discusses effective lagrangians, renormalization group equations, the path integral formulation, spontaneous symmetry breaking and non-abelian gauge theories. The inclusion of more advanced topics will also make this a most useful book for graduate students and researchers.
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