TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lancaster,Tom
AU  - Blundell,Stephen J.
TI  - Quantum field theory for the gifted amateur
SN  - 9780199699339 (pbk.)
U1  - 530.143 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Quantum field theory
KW  - Amateurs' manuals
KW  - Problems
KW  - Lehrbuch
KW  - Handbooks, manuals, etc
KW  - fast
KW  - Problems, exercises, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 0. Overture--
I. The Universe as a set of harmonic oscillators--
II. Writing down lagrangians--
III. The need for quantum fields--
IV. Propagators and perturbations--
V. Interlude: wisdom form statistical physics--
VI. Path integrals--
VII. Topological ideas--
VIII. Renormalization: taming the infinite--
IX. Putting a spin on QFT--
X. Some applications form the world of condensed matter--
XI. Some applications from the world of particle physics--
A. Further reading--
B. Useful complex analysis--
Index
N2  - This book on quantum field theory is designed to be different. It is written by experimental physicists and aims to provide the interested amateur with a bridge from undergraduate physics to quantum field theory. The imagined reader is a gifted amateur, possessing a curious and adaptable mind, looking to be told an entertaining and intellectually stimulating story, but who will not feel patronised if a few mathematical niceties are spelled out in detail. Using numerous worked examples, diagrams, and careful physically motivated explanations, this book will smooth the path towards understanding the radically different and revolutionary view of the physical world that quantum field theory provides, and which all physicists should have the opportunity to experience
ER  -