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Department: 17 - FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS
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Teaching language: English
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In programs
TTFYA ENGINEERING PHYSICS, Year 4 (elective)
Examiner:
Professor
Gabriele Ferretti
Eligibility:
For single subject courses within Chalmers programmes the same eligibility requirements apply, as to the programme(s) that the course is part of.
Course specific prerequisites
Special theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, advanced classical mechanics
Aim
We give an introduction to Quantum Field Theory (QFT), its teoretical
basis and some of its most basic applications. QFT is the common language
used by both particle physicists and condensed matter physicists to
describe quantum systems with an infinite number of degrees of freedom.
It naturally incorporates and syntetizes both quantum mechanics and
special relativity. The concrete goal is that the students will be able to
compute a few of the most basic experimentally verified predictions of QFT
in particle physics and condensed matter.
Content
Introduction, What is QFT? Why fields? Spin 0, 1/2 and 1 fields, Perturbation theory, Scattering matrix, Feynman diagrams, Cross sections and lifetimes, Elementary processes in quantum electrodynamics (QED), Renormalization group, Wilsonian view of renormalization, Dimensional regularization, Running coupling constant, Fixed points, Critical exponents.
Organisation
Lectures and exercises
Literature
An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory,
Michael E. Peskin and Daniel V. Schroeder
Addison-Wesley Advanced Book Program (now Perseus Books) (1995)
Examination
Homeworks and oral exam