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World Scientific Lecture Notes in Physics - Vol. 52
FIELD THEORY
A Path Integral Approach
by Ashok Das (University of Rochester, USA)
Traditionally, field theory is taught through canonical quantization with a heavy emphasis on high energy physics. However, the techniques of field theory are applicable as well and are extensively used in various other areas of physics such as condensed matter, nuclear physics and statistical mechanics. The path integral approach brings out this feature most clearly. In this book, the path integral approach is developed in detail completely within the context of quantum mechanics. Subsequently, it is applied to various areas of physics.
Contents:
- Introduction
- Path Integrals and Quantum Mechanics
- Harmonic
Oscillator
- Generating Functional
- Path Integrals for Fermions
- Supersymmetry
- Semi-Classical Methods
- Path Integral for the Double Well
- Path Integral for Relativistic Theories
- Effective Action
- Invariances and Their Consequences
- Systems at Finite Temperature
- Ising Model
Readership: Mathematical physicists and high energy physicists.
| 416pp |
Pub. date: Nov 1993 |
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