PHY 616 - QUANTUM FIELD THEORY I

College of Arts and Sciences

Credits: 3

An introduction to field theory and many-body theory. Topics include path integral quantization, second quantization, relativistic field theory of bosons and fermions, Green’s function and perturbation theory, field theories on the lattice, renormalization of scalar fields and applications to critical phenomena.

Prerequisite(s):
Prereq: PHY 615, PHY 632.