A Modern Course in Quantum Field Theory, Volume 1 (Second Edition): Fundamentals

by Badis Ydri

Overview

This book provides a self-contained pedagogical and constructive presentation of quantum field theory. It contains a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental topics of quantum field theory starting from free fields and their quantization, renormalizable interactions, critical phenomena, the standard model of elementary particle physics, lattice field theory, the functional renormalization group equation, non-commutative field theory, topological field configurations, exact solutions of quantum field theory, supersymmetry and the AdS/CFT correspondence. Written for advanced students, the work provides complete material for a two or three semester course and includes numerous exercises, some with detailed solutions. Readers of this text will be well prepared to follow the theoretical developments in the field and undertake research projects as part of an MSc or PhD programme.

Key Features:

• Reorganized, updated and extended new edition.
• Four new chapters.
• Additional exercises.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750358293
Publisher:	Institute of Physics Publishing
Publication date:	04/30/2025
Series:	IOP ebooks
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	600
File size:	24 MB
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About the Author

Badis Ydri is currently a professor of theoretical particle physics, at the Institute of Physics, Annaba University, Algeria. He is also a research associate at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, Ireland, and a regular ICTP Associate at the Abdus Salam Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.

Badis Ydri—cur­rently a pro­fes­sor of the­o­ret­i­cal par­ti­cle physics, teach­ing at the In­sti­tute of Physics, Badji Mokhtar Annaba Uni­ver­sity, Al­ge­ria—re­ceived his PhD from Syra­cuse Uni­ver­sity, New York, USA and in 2011 his Ha­bil­i­ta­tion from Annaba Uni­ver­sity, Annaba, Al­ge­ria. Pro­fes­sor Ydri is also a re­search as­so­ci­ate at the Dublin In­sti­tute for Advanced Stud­ies, Dublin, Ire­land, and a reg­u­lar ICTP as­so­ci­ate at the Abdus Salam Cen­ter for The­o­ret­i­cal Physics, Tri­este, Italy. His post-doc­toral ex­pe­ri­ence com­prises a Marie Curie fel­low­ship at Hum­boldt Uni­ver­sity Berlin, Ger­many, and a Hamil­ton fel­low­ship at the Dublin In­sti­tute for Ad­vanced Stud­ies, Ire­land. His cur­rent re­search di­rec­tions include: the gauge/grav­ity du­al­ity; the renor­mal­iza­tion group method in ma­trix and non­com­mu­ta­tive field the­o­ries; non-com­mu­ta­tive and ma­trix field the­ory; quan­tum grav­ity as emer­gent geom­e­try, emer­gent grav­ity and emer­gent cos­mol­ogy from ma­trix mod­els.

Table of Contents

Prologue

Acknowledgements

Author biography

1 Relativistic quantum mechanics

2 Initiation to particle physics

3 Canonical quantization of free fields

4 The phi-four theory

5 The electromagnetic field and Yang–Mills gauge interactions

6 Quantum electrodynamics

7 Path integral quantization of scalar fields

8 Path integral quantization of Dirac and vector fields

9 Standard model

10 Introduction to lattice field theory

11 The Callan–Symanzik renormalization group equation

Appendix A: Problems

Appendix B: Classical mechanics

Appendix C: Classical electrodynamics