Fall 2022
Welcome to PH6048! Relativistic Quantum Field
Theory is the fundamental framework underlying the
description of how Nature works at her most microscopic
level. Depending on your background, this may not be an
easy class, but if you do exert the mental effort I
believe you'll find the course intellectually rewarding!
- Textbooks &
Lecture Notes
- An
Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, by
Peskin and Schroeder
- Chapter 5 and 10 of Analytical
Methods in Physics
- Lecture Notes
on Field Theory (Check for updates.)
- Class Venue:
S4-623
- Class Times:
Wed 9 - 9:50 am and Thur 10 - 11:50 pm
- My Office: S4-718
- E-mail:
yizen [dot] chu [at] gmail [dot] com
- My Office Hours:
None. Just come look for me.
- Graduate Teaching
Assistants: Wei-Hao Chen
- Yi-Zen
- Disability
If you have a disability that you
think I should know about, and if you need special
accomodations, please feel free to speak to me after
class or e-mail me to set up a meeting.
- Academic
Integerity You are encouraged
to discuss with your classmates the material covered
in class, and even work together on your
assignments. However, the work you turn in must be
the result of your own effort. If I find that you
copied your work from some place else, you will
immediately receive zero credit for that particular
piece of work. If you plagarized your classmate,
your classmate will also receive zero credit for
her/his/their work, unless (s)he/they can prove to
my satisfaction (s)he/they were unwilling
participant(s) of your dishonesty.
Lecture Videos
Videos of the lectures
can be found here.
Syllabus
and Grading Scheme
The course material
will include:
- Spacetime Symmetries and Elements of Group
Representations
- (Semi-)Classical Field Theory in Minkowski
Spacetime
- Canonical Quantization
- Path Integrals
- Perturbative Scattering Theory
Because I wish to reward
hard work during the semester, I will give most
weight -- 75% of your total grade -- to the
homework you turn in. The rest of the 25%
will be for the final.
Homework (75%): I
recommend starting your homework as soon as possible
-- do not wait until the day before it is due to do
it! Note: I will
not accept late homework -- just turn in whatever
you have done at the time/day it is due.
- Due Thursday 13 October: AM 5.52, 5.53, 5.56,
5.58, 5.60, 5.66, 5.68, 5.79, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4,
10.5, 10.13, 10.18; D1, D2, D3
- Due Thursday 10 November: AM
10.18, 10.20, 10.22, 10.24, 10.25, 10.26-10.31,
10.33, 10.34, either 10.35 or 10.36, 10.37,
10.38, 10.39, 10.40, 10.44, 10.45, 10.46
- Due Thursday 8 December: Fields
3.1 through 3.10; 3.12 through 3.17. [For eq.
3.1.84, 3.5, the \sigma(1), \sigma(2), ...,
should really be \pi(1), \pi(2), etc. Also,
Problem 3.5 essentially involves the proof of
Wick's theorem using the operator method; see
Peskin and Schroeder \S 4.3. Ignore Problem
3.11; it is wrong.] [Problem 3.15 -- Added some
hints here.]
- Due Friday 6 January 2023: Fields
3.16, 3.20, 3.21, 3.28, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 6.1,
6.2, 9.1.
Final
Presentations (25%)
Due 4 and 5 January 2023. Working in groups of two,
solve one of the problems here, and
present its solutions in class over a 1 hour
session.
QFT
Textbooks
- An
Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, by
Peskin and Schroeder
- Quantum
Theory of Fields, by Weinberg
- Quantum
Field Theory, by Srednicki
- Quantum
Field Theory In a Nutshell, by Zee
- Quantum
Field Theory and the Standard Model, by
Schwartz
- Quantum
Field Theory, by Zuber and Itzykson
- Quantum
Field Theory, by Kaku
- Quantum
Field Theory, by Ryder
- A
Modern Introduction to Quantum Field Theory,
by Maggiore
- Modern
Quantum Field Theory, by Banks
- Quantum
Field Theory, by Mandl and Shaw
- Advanced
Topics in Quantum Field Theory, by Shifman
- Quantum
Field Theory, by Huang
- Quantum
Field Theory, by Nair
- Quantum
Field Theory of Point Particles and Strings,
by Hatfield
- Anomalies
in Quantum Field Theory, by Bertlmann
- An
Invitation to Quantum Field Theory, by
Alvarez-Gaumé and Vázquez-Mozo
- The
Global Approach to Quantum Field Theory,
by DeWitt
- Field
Theory: A Modern Primer, by Ramond
- Conformal
Field Theory, by Di Francesco, Mathieu,
and Senechal
- Scattering
Amplitudes in Gauge Theory and Gravity, by
Elvang and Huang
- Fields,
by Siegel
QFT in Curved Spacetime
QFT Lectures
(Mostly links to amazon.com -- out of
convenience; not an endorsement of their business
practices.)
While developing this course, I have
taken inspiration from several of the textbooks
& video lectures listed above.
The views and opinions expressed in this page are
strictly those of mine (Yi-Zen Chu). The contents of
this page have not been reviewed or approved by the
National Central University.
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