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Quantum field theory in a nutshell

A Zee

Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press c2003

Localização: EACH - Esc. Artes, Ciências e Humanidades    (530.143 Z43q ) e outros locais(Acessar)

  • Título:
    Quantum field theory in a nutshell
  • Autor: A Zee
  • Assuntos: Quantum field theory; TEORIA QUÂNTICA DE CAMPO
  • Notas: Includes bibliographical references (p. 501-503) and index
  • Descrição: Convention, notation, and units -- Motivation and foundation. Who needs it? -- Path integral formulation of quantum physics -- From mattress to field -- From field to particle to force -- Coulomb and Newton : repulsion and attraction -- Inverse square law and the floating 3-brane -- Feynman diagrams -- Quantizing canonically and disturbing the vacuum -- Symmetry -- Field theory in curved spacetime -- Field theory redux -- Dirac and the spinor. The Dirac equation -- Quantizing the Dirac field -- Lorentz group and Weyl spinors -- Spin-statistics connection -- Vacuum energy, Grassmann integrals, and Feynman diagrams for fermions -- Electron scattering and gauge invariance -- Diagrammatic proof of gauge invariance -- Renormalization and gauge invariance. Cutting off our ignorance -- Renormalizable versus nonrenormalizable -- Counterterms and physical perturbation theory -- Gauge invariance : a photon can find no rest -- Field theory without relativity -- The magnetic moment of the electron -- Polarizing the vacuum and renormalizing the charge -- Symmetry and symmetry breaking. Symmetry breaking -- The pion as a Nambu-Goldstone boson -- Effective potential -- Magnetic monopole -- Nonabelian gauge theory -- The Anderson-Higgs mechanism -- Chiral anomaly -- Field theory and collective phenomena. Superfluids -- Euclid, Boltzmann, Hawking, and field theory at finite temperature -- Landau-Ginzburg theory of critical phenomena -- Superconductivity -- Peierls
    instability -- Solitons -- Vortices, monopoles, and instantons -- Field theory and condensed matter. Fractional statistics, Chern-Simons term, and topological field theory -- Quantum hall fluids -- Duality -- The [Sigma] models as effective field theories -- Ferromagnets and antiferromagnets -- Surface growth and field theory -- Disorder : replicas and Grassmannian symmetry -- Renormalization group flow as a natural concept in high energy and condensed matter physics -- Grand unification. Quantizing Yang-Mills
  • Editor: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press
  • Data de criação/publicação: c2003
  • Formato: xv, 518 p. ill. 25 cm.
  • Idioma: Inglês
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