Course replaced by FYTN10 since 2011 so it is recommended to take that one instead

Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Introductory Quantum Field Theory 7.5hp

This page can be found at http://www.thep.lu.se/~bijnens/QFT1/.

PhD course in Theoretical Physics at Lund University

Course plan: ps pdf LaTeX

Course book: Michael E. Peskin and Daniel V. Schroeder, An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory

Misprints in the book can be found via Peskin's QFT page. Note that there are three different lists of misprints which you might all need depending on which edition you have. There are also some sections with have been rewritten available there.

Required Problems

2.2
3.2
3.4
3.5 (for interested students, not required)
4.2
4.3
4.4
5.1
5.2
6.1

Hints and comments to some of the exercises

The use of algebraic manipulation programs like FORM, Maple or Mathematica is allowed.

Further literature

There are many books on quantum field theory varying from very elementary to very mathematical. The course book tends to do calculations in more detail than most other quantum field theory books.

Freely available
- Warren Siegel, Fields, freely available on arXiv as hep-th/abs/9912205
- Mark Srednicki, Quantum Field Theory, freely available in a preliminary version
- Gerard 't Hooft, The Conceptual Basis of Quantum Field Theory
- R. E. Borcherds, A. Barnard, Lectures on Quantum Field Theory, freely available as math-ph/0204014, aimed at mathematicians
Other advanced books
- Steven Weinberg, The Quantum Theory of Fields, 3 volumes, good on the philosophy and reasons why field theory looks as it does. Unusual sign conventions. A good complementary read for those who want to know more
- Itzykson and Zuber, Quantum Field Theory, the book I learned a lot from
- P. Ramond, Field Theory, a modern primer, a purely pathintegral based approach
- A. Zee, Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell
Books that cover the material in this course often in a more elementary manner than the course book
- Michele Maggiore, A Modern Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
- Lewis H. Ryder, Quantum Field Theory
- F. Mandl and G. Shaw, Quantum Field Theory

Some of the more philosophical backgrounds of Field theory can be found in the review article Frank Wilczek, Quantum Field Theory published in Rev.Mod.Phys. 71 (1999) S85-S95 or hep-th/9803075. A shorter discussion by Steven Weinberg is hep-th/9702027

Solutions on the web

I haven't found any yet but they do probably exist if you look hard enough.

Johan Bijnens (bijnens@thep.lu.se)

Last changed: March 2012