"Version: 20250401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Relativistic quantum mechanics -- 1.1. The rotation groups SO(3) and SO(n) -- 1.2. Special relativity -- 1.3. Klein-Gordon equation -- 1.4. Dirac equation -- 1.5. Free solutions of the Dirac equation -- 1.6. Lorentz covariance : first look -- 1.7. Representations of the Lorentz group -- 1.8. Exercises -- 1.9. Solutions…
"Version: 20250601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.12. The Wilson and functional renormalization group equations -- 12.1. Wilson renormalization group approach -- 12.2. The Wilson approximate recursion formulas -- 12.3. Generating functionals -- 12.4. The functional renormalization group -- 12.5. The vertex expansion approximation method for 04 -- 12.6. The gradient expan…
"Version: 20180701"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Interaction at a distance? Rather, the propagation of a field -- 1.1. Static fields perhaps well known -- 1.2. Time dependent fields perhaps less well known -- 1.3. Bibliography2. The messengers of the interactions : the 'quanta' of the …
"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Classical field theory -- 1.1. Lagrangian formalism for fields -- 1.2. The Klein-Gordon field -- 1.3. The electromagnetic field -- 1.4. Lorentz invariance -- 1.5. Transformation of fields under Lorentz transformations -- 1.6. Noether's t…
"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Path integral formulation of quantum mechanics -- 1.1. The transition probability amplitude -- 1.2. Derivation of the quantum mechanical path integral -- 1.3. Path integral in terms of the Lagrangian -- 1.4. Computing simple path integra…
"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. QCD phenomenology -- 1.1. Electron-muon scattering -- 1.2. Form factors -- 1.3. Elastic electron-proton scattering and the proton form factors -- 1.4. Inelastic electron-proton scattering -- 1.5. The parton model and Bjorken scaling -- 1…
"Version: 20200801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Preliminaries -- 1.1. Functionals and classical mechanics -- 1.2. The operator formulation of quantum mechanics -- 1.3. Operator identities -- 1.4. Grassmann variables -- 1.5. Gaussian integrals -- 1.6. Poisson resummation2. The quantum mechanical path integral -- 2.1. The infinitesimal transition element -- 2.2. The b…
"Version: 20190501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Relativistic quantum mechanics -- 1.1. The rotation groups SO(3) and SO(n) -- 1.2. Special relativity -- 1.3. Klein-Gordon equation -- 1.4. Dirac equation -- 1.5. Free solutions of the Dirac equation -- 1.6. Lorentz covariance : first look -- 1.7. Representations of the Lorentz group -- 1.8. Exercises -- 1.9. Solutions…
"Version: 20190501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.9. Standard model -- 9.1. Elements of phenomenology -- 9.2. The standard model -- 9.3. Exercises10. Introduction to lattice field theory -- 10.1. The lattice [phi]2 -- 10.2. Fermions on the lattice -- 10.3. Gauge fields on the lattice -- 10.4. Quenched quantum electrodynamics on the lattice11. The Wilson and functional re…
"Version: 20210201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Goals of the lecture notes -- 1.2. Classical electrodynamics and its symmetries -- 1.3. Field quantization -- 1.4. The need for discreteness in quantum computing -- 1.5. Symmetries and predictive models2. Classical field theory -- 2.1. Classical action, equations of motion and symmetries -- 2.2. Tr…