Quantum Field Theory I, Fall 2019
Syllabus
Lecture notes
Course Materials
Lecture 1 Introduction, Lagrangian formulation, Noether theorem
Lecture 2 Klein–Gordon fields, Feynman propagator
Lecture 3 Clifford algebra, Free Dirac fields
Lecture 4 Free Dirac fields II
Lecture 5 Free electromagnetic field, quantum fields with interactions
Lecture 6 Perturbation theory and Feynman diagrams
Lecture 7 S-matrix
Lecture 8 QED at tree level
Lecture 9 Anomalous magnetic moment
Lecture 10 Infrared divergence, Bremsstrahlung, electron self-energy, mass renormalization
Lecture 11 Källén–Lehmann spectral representation, LSZ reduction formula
Lecture 12 Optical theorem, renormalization of electric charge, running coupling constant
Lecture 13 Path-integral
Lecture 14 Schwinger–Dyson equation, Ward–Takahashi identity