David Tong Lectures on Statistical Field Theory
The content in this site are as follows : From Spins to Fields, The Ising Model, Landau Mean Field Theory, Universality, Critical Exponents, Landau-Ginzburg Theory, Domain Walls, The Lower Critical Dimension, My First Path Integral, The Thermodynamic Free Energy (again); Correlation Functions, Correlation Length; The Upper Critical Dimension, The Analogy with Quantum Field Theory, The Renormalisation Group, The Big Idea, Universality Explained, Scaling Explained; Relevant, Irrelevant and Marginal; The Gaussian Fixed Point, Dangerously Irrelevant Operators, Interactions, Feynman Diagrams; the Epsilon Expansion, the Wilson-Fisher Fixed Point, A Sniff of Conformal Symmetry, Continuous Symmetry, The Importance of Symmetry, O(N) Models, Goldstone Bosons and Goldstone's Theorem, The Mermin-Wagner Theorem; Sigma Models, Background Fields, Large N, the Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition, Vortices, the Coulomb Gas, the Sine-Gordon Model, RG for KT and SG.
Author(s): David Tong, University of Cambridge
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David Tong Lectures on Statistical Field Theory
The content in this site are as follows : From Spins to Fields, The Ising Model, Landau Mean Field Theory, Universality, Critical Exponents, Landau-Ginzburg Theory, Domain Walls, The Lower Critical Dimension, My First Path Integral, The Thermodynamic Free Energy (again); Correlation Functions, Correlation Length; The Upper Critical Dimension, The Analogy with Quantum Field Theory, The Renormalisation Group, The Big Idea, Universality Explained, Scaling Explained; Relevant, Irrelevant and Marginal; The Gaussian Fixed Point, Dangerously Irrelevant Operators, Interactions, Feynman Diagrams; the Epsilon Expansion, the Wilson-Fisher Fixed Point, A Sniff of Conformal Symmetry, Continuous Symmetry, The Importance of Symmetry, O(N) Models, Goldstone Bosons and Goldstone's Theorem, The Mermin-Wagner Theorem; Sigma Models, Background Fields, Large N, the Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition, Vortices, the Coulomb Gas, the Sine-Gordon Model, RG for KT and SG.
Author(s): David Tong, University of Cambridge
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This lecture note contains the following contents : Prerequisites, Contents, References, Classical Mechanics, Hamiltonian Formulation, Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics and Relativity, Conventions, Spring Lattice, Continuum Limit, Relativistic Covariance, Hamiltonian Field Theory, Quantisation, Fock Space, Complex Scalar Field, Correlators, Sources, Internal Symmetries, Spacetime Symmetries, Discrete Symmetries, Dirac Equation and Clifford Algebra, Discrete Symmetries, Spin Statistics, Grassmann Numbers, Quantisation, Complex and Real Fields, Massless Field and Chiral Symmetry, Classical Electrodynamics, Gauge Fixing, Particle States, Casimir Energy, Massive Vector Field, Interacting Lagrangians, Interacting Field Operators, Perturbation Theory, Some Examples, Feynman Rules, Feynman Rules for QED, Scattering Basics, Cross Sections and Matrix Elements, Electron Scattering, Pair Production, Loop Contributions, Asymptotic States, Unitarity, Self Energy, Loop Integral, Regularisation and Renormalisation, Counterterms, Vertex Renormalisation.
Author(s): ETH Zurich
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