Quantum Field Theory The Why, What and How /

• Main Author: Padmanabhan, Thanu (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Graduate Texts in Physics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Mathematical physics.; Quantum field theory.; String theory.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Mathematical Physics.

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 inter...

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.