Lecture Videos | Relativistic Quantum Field Theory I | Physics | MIT OpenCourseWare

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Prof. Hong Liu

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Physics

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Spring 2023

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Graduate

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Lecture 1: Classical Field Theories and Principle of Locality

Lecture 2: Symmetries and Conservation Laws

Lecture 3: Why Quantum Field Theory

Lecture 4: Canonical Quantization of a Free Scalar Field Theory

Lecture 5: Complex Scalar Field Theory and Anti-Particle

Lecture 6: Propagators and Green Functions

Lecture 7: Interacting Theories and S-Matrix

Lecture 8: Path Integral Formalism for Non-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics

Lecture 9: Path Integral Formalism for QFT; Computation of Time-Ordered Correlation Functions

Lecture 10: Time-Ordered Correlation Functions in Field Theory

Lecture 11: Computation of Correlation Functions in Perturbation Theory and Feynman Diagrams

Lecture 12: More on Perturbation Theory and Feynman Diagrams

Lecture 13: Introducing the Dirac Equation

Lecture 14: Lorentz Covariance of the Dirac Equation

Lecture 15: Classical Solutions of Dirac Equations

Lecture 16: Quantization of the Dirac Theory

Lecture 17: Chiral and Majorana Spinors

Lecture 18: Discrete Symmetries

Lecture 19: Path Integrals of Fermions

Lecture 20: Maxwell Theory and its Canonical Quantization

Lecture 21: Quantum Maxwell Theory (continued)

Lecture 22: Quantum Electrodynamics

Lecture 23: Cross Section and Decay Rate

Lecture 24: Elementary Processes in QED (I)

Lecture 25: Elementary Processes in QED (II)

Lecture 26: Quantum Fluctuations and Renormalization

Course Info

Instructor

Prof. Hong Liu

Departments

Physics

As Taught In

Spring 2023

Level

Graduate

Topics

Science
- Physics

Learning Resource Types

Lecture Videos

Readings

Problem-solving Notes

Problem Sets

Problem Set Solutions

Download Course

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