Quantum Field Theory
Dietrich Bödeker
Lecture notes, problem sheets
Why Quantum Field Theory?
1 Classical field theory, symmetries 1.1 Principle of least action 1.2 Lorentz invariance
Sheet 1
1.3 Hamiltonian formulation, 1.4 Noether's theorem
1.5 Complex Klein-Gordon field, 1.6 Poisson brackets, symmetry generators
Sheet 2
2 Scalar field quantization 2.1 Canonical quantization 2.2 Quantized real scalar field
2.3 Particles, spin, statistics 2.4 Complex scalar field
Sheet 3
2.5 Finite symmetry transformations
3 Correlation functions, interactions and scattering 2.1 Two-point functions, 2.2 Interactions
2.3 Energy spectrum, 2.4 Propagator
2.5 In and out states 2.6 Normalizable 1-particle states
Sheet 4
Literature, (some online books accessible only in the Uni VPN, see also Semesterapparat in the library)
Srednicki,
Quantum Field Theory
Peskin, Schroeder,
An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
Weinberg,
The Quantum Theory of Fields Vol. 1 Foundations
Sterman,
An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
Zee,
Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell
Brown,
Quantum field theory
Ryder,
Quantum Field Theory
Online lecture notes:
Notes from Sidney Coleman's Physics 253a
Lecture notes by David Tong
, Cambridge
Specific topics:
Handouts by David B. Kaplan
Kaplan, Fermionic path intetgration
Path integrals in Quantum mechanics:
G. Münster,
Quantentheorie
Sakurai,
Modern quantum mechanics
Advanced topics in QFT:
Collins,
Renormalization
Collins,
A new approach to the LSZ reduction formula
Related topics:
Nachtmann,
Phänomene und Konzepte der Elementarteilchenphysik
Sexl, Urbantke,
Relativität, Gruppen, Teilchen