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.
| ISBN: | 9789819954094 |
| Publication date: | 15th November 2023 |
| Author: | G. W. Semenoff |
| Publisher: | Springer an imprint of Springer Nature Singapore |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 401 pages |
| Series: | Graduate Texts in Physics |
| Genres: |
Particle and high-energy physics Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory) Mathematical physics |