Quantum Field Theory Course QFT10X
About me
My name is Patrick Van Esch, and I'm following a course on quantum
field theory. That's why I've set up this web page, to share some material
with my co-students. I'm not so very fond of publishing a lot of personal
stuff, so I'll keep this short. You can always e-mail me.
Course information
In fact, all this is old stuff now. The course is long over, but I keep the
material here for reference.
The course was given on this
site. The book used in the course was An
introduction to Quantum Field Theory by Peskin and Schroeder.
Personal contributions
Summary of the chapters
chapter 2: The Klein-Gordon Field
chapter 3 The Dirac Field:
chapter 4: Interacting Fields and Feynman Diagrams
chapter 5: Elementary Processes of Quantum Electrodynamics
chapter 6: Radiative Corrections: Introduction
chapter 7: Radiative Corrections: Some Formal
Developments
chapter 9: Functional Methods
chapter 10: Systematics of Renormalisation
chapter 11: Renormalisation and Symmetry
chapter 12: The Renormalization Group
chapter 15: Non-Abelian Gauge Invariance
chapter 16: Quantization of Non-Abelian Gauge
Theories (partial)
chapter 17: Quantum Chromodynamics
Solutions to exercises
I used Mathematica to write up the solutions of
the exercises, but in most cases just as a typesetting tool. In
order to view these pages, you need Mathematica
which is (unfortunately) a commercial product. However, there is a free
viewer for these documents, called MathReader.
Other pages have been produced by MikTeX (a LaTeX product) into
pdf files.
Contributions to QFT101:
Problem 2.1 notebook
Problem 2.3 notebook
Problem 3.1 notebook
Problem 3.3 notebook
Problem 3.4: p1, p2, p3, p4, p5
Problem 3.5: p1, p2, p3, p4, p5 , p6
Problem 3.8: p1, p2
Problem 4.1: p1, p2, p3, p4, p5 , p6
Problem 4.4 notebook
Problem 5.1 notebook
Problem 5.2: p1, p2, p3, p4, p5
Problem 5.4: p1, p2, p3, p4, p5, p6
Problem 5.5: p1, p2, p3, p4, p5, p6,p7, p8, p9, p10, p11, p12,p13, p14, p15
Problem 6.1: p1, p2, p3 as handwritten pages and a notebook .
Problem 6.2 partial solution (possibly with errors !)
Contributions to QFT102:
Problem 15.1 notebook
Problem 15.2 notebook
Problem 15-5 (PDF format)
Mathematica stuff
I've written (and I'm writing) some accompagning stuff in Mathematica,
this time to really use the software. You can also view these
notebooks with the MathReader, but it makes
less sense, because it is code that should be executed.
wick4 is a mathematica worksheet still in devellopment,
that applies Wick's theorem to several theories, phi-4, Yukawa and QED.