"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: 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…
"Version: 20221001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Introduction to quantum field theory -- 1.1. Natural units -- 1.2. The simple harmonic oscillator in classical mechanics -- 1.3. The harmonic oscillator in quantum mechanics -- 1.4. Photons -- 1.5. Paths to quantum field theory2. Quantum mechanics and path integrals -- 2.1. Classical mechanics and fields -- 2…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Gauge theories -- 1.1. Introduction to quantum electrodynamics -- 1.2. Abelian gauge invariance -- 1.3. Perturbative calculations at tree level in QED -- 1.4. Renormalization of QED -- 1.5. Compact Lie groups -- 1.6. Non-Abelian gauge theories -- 1.7. The Faddeev-Popov ansatz and gauge fixing for non-Abelian gauge theo…