General Prerequisites:
The course is on QFT, not on its precursors. To help you make sure that you are prepared there will be some preliminary material available on the Course Materials tab.
Course Term: Michaelmas
Course Lecture Information: 24 lectures
Course Overview:
24 lectures
1.5 units
Lecturer: Prof John Wheater
Areas: PT, CMT, Astro, foundational course.
Sequels: Advanced Quantum Field Theory for Particle Physics (HT), Conformal Field Theory (TT),
Quantum Field Theory in Curved Space-Time (TT).
Method of assessment: Written examination in week 0 HT
This a Physics course. Additional course materials such as problem sheets, homework hand in, and lecture recording can be found at the Canvas site at:
https://canvas.ox.ac.uk/courses/110068 Lectures can be accessed from this link, but if you need a direct link to lectures they can be found at:
https://canvas.ox.ac.uk/courses/110068/external_tools/496
1.5 units
Lecturer: Prof John Wheater
Areas: PT, CMT, Astro, foundational course.
Sequels: Advanced Quantum Field Theory for Particle Physics (HT), Conformal Field Theory (TT),
Quantum Field Theory in Curved Space-Time (TT).
Method of assessment: Written examination in week 0 HT
This a Physics course. Additional course materials such as problem sheets, homework hand in, and lecture recording can be found at the Canvas site at:
https://canvas.ox.ac.uk/courses/110068 Lectures can be accessed from this link, but if you need a direct link to lectures they can be found at:
https://canvas.ox.ac.uk/courses/110068/external_tools/496
Learning Outcomes:
Course Synopsis:
Synopsis
1. Introduction, and Why do we need quantum field theory?
2. Relativistic wave equations
3. Formalism of classical field theory
4. Canonical quantisation of the real scalar field
5. Charge and complex fields
6. Canonical quantisation of the fermion field
7. Interacting fields, formalism and the perturbation expansion
8. Scattering and decay, their relation to amplitudes
9. Calculation of low order Feynman diagrams
10. Regularization, effective and renormalizable QFTs
11. Feynman path integral quantisation
1. Introduction, and Why do we need quantum field theory?
2. Relativistic wave equations
3. Formalism of classical field theory
4. Canonical quantisation of the real scalar field
5. Charge and complex fields
6. Canonical quantisation of the fermion field
7. Interacting fields, formalism and the perturbation expansion
8. Scattering and decay, their relation to amplitudes
9. Calculation of low order Feynman diagrams
10. Regularization, effective and renormalizable QFTs
11. Feynman path integral quantisation