Lecture Notes in Physics - Vol. 1
QUANTUM THEORY OF MANY VARIABLE SYSTEMS AND FIELDS
by B Sakita (CUNY)
These lecture notes are based on special courses on Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics given for graduate students at the City College of New York. It is an ideal text for a one-semester course on Quantum Field Theory.
Contents:
- Canonical Operator Formalism of Quantum Mechanics
- Path Integral
Formalism
- Path Integral Formalism of Fermi Fields
- Perturbation Theory and Feynman Graphs
- Euclidean Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics
- Point Canonical Transformation
- Large Collective Variables
- Variational Method
- WKB Method I: Instantons
- WKB Method II: Solitons
- Quantum Theory of Non-Abelian Gauge Fields
- Spin System and Lattice Gauge Theory
- Stochastic Quantization
Readership: High energy physicists, mathematical physicists and condensed
matter physicists.
"... one finds excellent discussions of a number of topics not treated in textbooks: to wit, point canonical transformations, large N matrix models, collective variables and stochastic quantization ... This book should be useful reading for graduate students and research workers in quantum field theory and related subjects."
Claus Montonen (Helsinki)
Mathematical Reviews |
| 228pp |
Pub. date: Sept 1985 |
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