The contents of this lecture notes are :
Useful References and Texts, Philosophy, Review of Lagrangians and Harmonic
Oscillators, Balls and Springs, Free Scalar Quantum Field Theory with Special
Relativity, Interactions in Classical Field Theory with a View Towards QFT,
Overview of Scattering and Perturbation Theory, Old Fashioned Perturbation
Theory, Feynman Rules as a Generalization of Classical Physics, The Hamiltonian
Formalism for Perturbation Theory, Feynman Rules from the Hamiltonian Formalism,
Particles with Spin, Covariant Derivatives and Scalar QED, Scattering and Ward
Identities in Scalar QED, Spinors and QED, Quantization and Feynman Rules for
QED, Casimir Effect, The Exact pt Correlator Kallen-Lehmann Representation,
Large Logarithms and Renormalization Flows, QM Example of Wilsonian
Renormalization, Wilsonian Renormalization Flows, Path Integrals, Path Integrals
and Statistical Physics, Discrete Symmetries and Spinors, More on Spin and
Statistics, QED Vacuum Polarization and Anomalous Magnetic Moment,
Renormalization and QED, IR Divergences and Long Wavelength Physics,
Implications of Unitarity, Interlude on Lie Groups and Lie Algebras, Overview of
Lie Algebra Classi cation and Representations, Spontaneously Broken Global
Symmetries and Goldstone Bosons, Renormalization in YM and Asymptotic Freedom,
Higgs Mechanism, Parton Model and Deep Inelastic Scattering, Anomalies as Almost
Local E ects, A Lecture on Cosmological Perturbation Theory.
Author(s): Jared Kaplan, Department of Physics and
Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University
This book
online covers the following topics related to Introduction to Gauge Field Theory
: Path integrals, Path integrals in non-relativistic quantum mechanics,
Classical field theory, Quantum field theory of a scalar field, Scattering
amplitudes, Feynman rules for kcp* theory, Renormalisation of X(p4 theory,
Quantum field theory with fermions, Gauge field theories, Feynman rules for
quantum chromodynamics, Renormalisation of q c d and q e d at one-loop order, q
c d and asymptotic freedom, Spontaneous symmetry breaking, Feynman rules for
electroweak theory, Renormalisation of electroweak theory, Grand unified theory,
Field theories at finite temperature.
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.