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Quantum Field Theory Notes

Spring 2016

 

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Background

 

Hamiltonian mechanics

 

Field theory

 

Complex analysis and the residue theorem

 

Special relativity

 

Reading: J. Maciejko, Representations of Lorentz and PoincarŽ groups

 

Chapter 2: Group theory   pp 49 - 83

 

Group Theory

 

Spinors and the Dirac equation

 

Quantization

 

Canonical quantization

 

Quantum mechanical simple harmonic oscillator

 

Functional differentiation

 

Canonical quantization of the Klein-Gordon field

 

The Hamiltonian operator and particle states

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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