Title：A Crash Course on Quantum Field Theory
Speaker： Long Zhang Peking University
Time： 2015-08-13 15:00-2015-08-13 16:00
Venue：S-327, MMW Building
Abstract:
Outline:
1. Particle -> field -> particles: canonical quantization
2. Path integral formulation
3. What we measure: linear response
4. Perturbation
5. Collective motion as new particles
6. Symmetry breaking and solitons in (1+1) dimension
7. A synthesis: Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model
General Refs:
A Zee. Quantum field theory in a nutshell
S Coleman. Aspects of symmetry
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