Overview
The importance and the beauty of modern quantum field theory resides in the power and variety of its methods and ideas, which find application in domains as different as particle physics, cosmology, condensed matter, statistical mechanics and critical phenomena. This book introduces the reader to the modern developments, assuming no previous knowledge of quantum field theory. Along with standard topics like Feynman diagrams, the book discusses effective lagrangians, renormalization group equations, the path integral formulation, spontaneous symmetry breaking and non-abelian gauge theories. The inclusion of more advanced topics will also make this a most useful book for graduate students and researchers.
Full Product Details
Author: Michele Maggiore (, Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Volume: 12
Dimensions:
Width: 19.20cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 25.20cm
Weight: 0.790kg
ISBN: 9780198520733
ISBN 10: 0198520735
Pages: 310
Publication Date: 25 November 2004
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Aiming at graduate students, this novel textbook on the theory of quantum fields differs from any other existing books on the same subject since it focuses on the generality of its methods and ideas rather than on its power as a calculational tool. Gert Roepstorff, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol 1078, 2006 The author gives a nice conceptual discussion of divergences in loop amplitudes, the need to renormalize, and how both renormalization group...he manages to convey the main ideas without getting lost in technical details. Physics Today All in all, Maggiore's approach is precisely the one that should be taken in an undergraduate course: Introduce the big ideas and leave the computational and thornier technical details for subsequent courses. Physics Today
Aiming at graduate students, this novel textbook on the theory of quantum fields differs from any other existing books on the same subject since it focuses on the generality of its methods and ideas rather than on its power as a calculational tool. Gert Roepstorff, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol 1078, 2006 The author gives a nice conceptual discussion of divergences in loop amplitudes, the need to renormalize, and how both renormalization group...he manages to convey the main ideas without getting lost in technical details. Physics Today All in all, Maggiore's approach is precisely the one that should be taken in an undergraduate course: Introduce the big ideas and leave the computational and thornier technical details for subsequent courses. Physics Today
Author Information
Michele Maggiore is Professor of Physics at the University of Geneva in Switzerland.
