Graduate Texts in Physics: An Introduction

Semenoff, Gordon Walter

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.

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Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2024-12-03

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9789819954124

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-5410-0

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 403