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The Physics of Quantum Fields

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  • © 2000

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Authors:
  1. Michael Stone

    1. Loomis Laboratory Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA

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Part of the book series: Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics (GTCP)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Discrete Systems

    • Michael Stone
    Pages 1-11

  3. Relativistic Scalar Fields

    • Michael Stone
    Pages 12-24

  4. Perturbation Theory

    • Michael Stone
    Pages 25-36

  5. Feynman Rules

    • Michael Stone
    Pages 37-47

  6. Loops, Unitarity, and Analyticity

    • Michael Stone
    Pages 48-61

  7. Formal Developments

    • Michael Stone
    Pages 62-71

  8. Fermions

    • Michael Stone
    Pages 72-82

  9. QED

    • Michael Stone
    Pages 83-96

  10. Electrons in Solids

    • Michael Stone
    Pages 97-116

  11. Nonrelativistic Bosons

    • Michael Stone
    Pages 117-135

  12. Finite Temperature

    • Michael Stone
    Pages 136-142

  13. Path Integrals

    • Michael Stone
    Pages 143-157

  14. Functional Methods

    • Michael Stone
    Pages 158-170

  15. Path Integrals for Fermions

    • Michael Stone
    Pages 171-184

  16. Lattice Field Theory

    • Michael Stone
    Pages 185-200

  17. The Renormalization Group

    • Michael Stone
    Pages 201-212

  18. Fields and Renormalization

    • Michael Stone
    Pages 213-232

  19. Large N Expansions

    • Michael Stone
    Pages 233-245

  20. Back Matter

    Pages 246-271
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About this book

This book is intended to provide a general introduction to the physics of quantized fields and many-body physics. It is based on a two-semester sequence of courses taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign at various times between 1985 and 1997. The students taking all or part of the sequence had interests ranging from particle and nuclear theory through quantum optics to condensed matter physics experiment. The book does not cover as much ground as some texts. This is because I have tried to concentrate on the basic conceptual issues that many students find difficult. For a computation-method oriented course an instructor would probably wish to suplement this book with a more comprehensive and specialized text such as Peskin and Schroeder An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, which is intended for particle theorists, or perhaps the venerable Quantum Theory of Many-Particle Systems by Fetter and Walecka. The most natural distribution of the material if the book is used for a two-semster course is as follows: 1 st Semester: Chapters 1-11. 2nd semester: Chapters 12-18.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Loomis Laboratory Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA

    Michael Stone

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