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  title info:
    title: Quantum Field Theory
    sub title: The Why, What and How
  name:
    name part: Padmanabhan, Thanu.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2016
    edition: 1st ed. 2016.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVII, 283 p. 46 illus., 44 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book describes, in clear terms, the Why, What and the How of Quantum Field Theory. The raison d'etre of QFT is explained by starting from the dynamics of a relativistic particle and demonstrating how it leads to the notion of quantum fields. Non-perturbative aspects and the Wilsonian interpretation of field theory are emphasized right from the start. Several interesting topics such as the Schwinger effect, Davies-Unruh effect, Casimir effect and spontaneous symmetry breaking introduce the reader to the elegance and breadth of applicability of field theoretical concepts. Complementing the conceptual aspects, the book also develops all the relevant mathematical techniques in detail, leading e.g., to the computation of anomalous magnetic moment of the electron and the two-loop renormalisation of the self-interacting scalar field. It contains nearly a hundred problems, of varying degrees of difficulty, making it suitable for both self-study and classroom use. .
  table of contents: From Particles to Fields -- Disturbing the Vacuum -- From Fields to Particles -- Real Life I: Interactions -- Real Life II: Fermions and QED -- A Potpourri of Problems.
  note: by Thanu Padmanabhan.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum field theory
  subject:
    topic: String theory
  subject:
    topic: Elementary particles (Physics)
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Field Theories, String Theory
  subject:
    topic: Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical Physics
  classification: QC174.45-174.52
  classification: 530.14
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Graduate Texts in Physics
  identifier: 9783319281735
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28173-5
  record info:
    record creation date: 160202
    record change date: 20160203142607.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-28173-5