A Modern Course in Quantum Field Theory, Volume 1: Fundamentals

by Badis Ydri

Overview

A Modern Course in Quantum Field Theory provides a self-contained pedagogical and constructive presentation of quantum field theory. Here, constructive is not meant in the sense of axiomatic field theory, but in the sense that all results must be obtained by an explicit set of calculations from accepted premises by those who start to learn this subject. Written for advanced students, the work provides complete material for a two or three semester course and includes numerous problem exercises, some with detailed solutions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750314794
Publisher:	Institute of Physics Publishing
Publication date:	05/21/2019
Series:	ISSN
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	350
File size:	24 MB
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About the Author

Badis Ydri is currently a professor of theoretical particle physics, at the Institute of Physics, Annaba University, Algeria. He is also a research associate at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ireland, and a regular ICTP associate at the Abdus Salam Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy.
Badis Ydri—cur­rently a pro­fes­sor of the­o­ret­i­cal par­ti­cle physics, teach­ing at the In­sti­tute of Physics, Badji Mokhtar Annaba Uni­ver­sity, Al­ge­ria—re­ceived his PhD from Syra­cuse Uni­ver­sity, New York, USA and in 2011 his Ha­bil­i­ta­tion from Annaba Uni­ver­sity, Annaba, Al­ge­ria. Pro­fes­sor Ydri is also a re­search as­so­ci­ate at the Dublin In­sti­tute for Advanced Stud­ies, Dublin, Ire­land, and a reg­u­lar ICTP as­so­ci­ate at the Abdus Salam Cen­ter for The­o­ret­i­cal Physics, Tri­este, Italy. His post-doc­toral ex­pe­ri­ence com­prises a Marie Curie fel­low­ship at Hum­boldt Uni­ver­sity Berlin, Ger­many, and a Hamil­ton fel­low­ship at the Dublin In­sti­tute for Ad­vanced Stud­ies, Ire­land. His cur­rent re­search di­rec­tions include: the gauge/grav­ity du­al­ity; the renor­mal­iza­tion group method in ma­trix and non­com­mu­ta­tive field the­o­ries; non-com­mu­ta­tive and ma­trix field the­ory; quan­tum grav­ity as emer­gent geom­e­try, emer­gent grav­ity and emer­gent cos­mol­ogy from ma­trix mod­els.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1 Relativistic quantum mechanics

2 Canonical quantization of free fields

3 The phi-four theory

4 The electromagnetic field and Yang-Mills gauge interactions

5 Quantum electrodynamics

6 Path integral quantization of scalar fields

7 Path integral quantization of Dirac and vector fields

8 The Callan-Symanzik renormalization group equation

A Problems

B Classical mechanics

C Classical electrodynamics