Lecture "Quantum Field Theory"

of Priv.-Doz. Dr. Axel Pelster in Summer Term 2014:


General Information:

  • Lectures Wednesdays in Seminar Room 46-576 from 13.45 until 15.15
    Lecture at 28.05. does not take place and is shifted to 05.06.

  • Exercises Thursdays in Seminar Room 46-576 from 15.30 until 17.00 at the following days:
    22.5., 12.06., 19.06., 26.06.

    Topics:

    Canonical field quantization, Poincare group, Klein-Gordon field, Noether theorem, Maxwell field, Dirac field,
    quantum electrodynamics, perturbation theory, Wick rule, Feyman diagrams, scattering processes

    Excercise Sheets:

  • Problem Set 1 for the Exercises at 22.05.14

  • Problem Set 2 for the Exercises at 22.05.14

  • Problem Set 3 for the Exercises at 12.06.14

  • Problem Set 4 for the Exercises at 12.06.14

  • Problem Set 5 for the Exercises at 26.06.14

  • Problem Set 6

  • Problem Set 7

    Literature:

  • F. Dyson, Quantenfeldtheorie, Springer, 2014

  • W. Greiner, Relativistic Quantum Mechanics - Wave Equations, Springer, 2000

  • W. Greiner and J. Reinhardt, Quantum Electrodynamics, Springer, 2008

  • W. Greiner and J. Reinhardt, Field Quantization, Springer, 2008

  • M.E. Peskin and D.V. Schröder, An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, Cambridge University Press, 1995

  • S. Schweber, QED and the men who made it - Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga, Princeton University Press, 1994

  • M. Veltman, Diagrammatica - The Path to Feynman Diagrams, Cambridge University Press, 1994

  • T. Lancaster and S.J. Blundell, Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur, Oxford University Press, 2014