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.
24 lectures
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).
Link to submit your homework (this is not a homework completion course but you still submit your work online)
Click on the relevant link depending on who your Teaching Assistant is:
Federico Buccioni's class: https://cloud.maths.ox.ac.uk/index.php/s/wxMLPpFjzfQ8SeC
Giacomo Marocco's class: https://cloud.maths.ox.ac.uk/index.php/s/aEpTWfCR7wNWLoR
Rok Medves' class: https://cloud.maths.ox.ac.uk/index.php/s/YQiW9AWgHTRWTF2
Arthur Platschorre's class: https://cloud.maths.ox.ac.uk/index.php/s/MLXZpbsSMyLkG6G
Krishnendu Ray's Class:https://cloud.maths.ox.ac.uk/index.php/s/j7ck8HbRm2JBpBp
Aleksandra Ziolkowska's class: https://cloud.maths.ox.ac.uk/index.php/s/zT6HAKK6CCwkJ8p
Deadlines to be confirmed
Prof. John Wheater
Invigilated written examination in HT
The lectures:
Because of the pandemic the lectures will be on-line. They will be pre-recorded and the content of the “blackboards” will be available as a pdf at the same time as the recordings.
We will have timetabled weekly, live, on-line question and answer sessions, and will go through the details of how this will work in the first lecture.
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