Table of Contents

Introducing Quantum Fields; Scalar Fields; Relativistic Fields; Canonical Formalism; Electromagnetic Field; Dirac Equation; The Dirac Field; Dynamics of Interacting Fields; Feynman Graphs; Vacuum Correlation Functions; Quantum Electrodynamics; Processes in Quantum Electrodynamics; Perturbative Renormalization; Path Integrals; Broken Symmetry; Renormalization; The Gaussian Fixed Point; In Two Dimensions; Topological Excitations; Appendices; Index.

About the Author

KERSON HUANG, PhD, a leading authority on quantum physics, is Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Statistical Mechanics, also published by Wiley, and Quarks, Leptons and Gauge Fields, Second Edition.