基本信息出版社：世界图书出版公司
页码：518 页
出版日期：2009年08月
ISBN：7510005272/9787510005275
条形码：9787510005275
版本：第1版
装帧：平装
开本：32
正文语种：英语
外文书名：Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell
内容简介 《简明量子场论》内容简介：As a student, I was rearing at the bit, after a course on quantum mechanics, tolearn quantum field theory, but the books on the subject all seemed so formidable.Fortunately, I came across a little book by Mandl on field theory, which gaveme a taste of the subject enabling me to go on and tackle the more substantivetexts. I have since learned that other physicists of my generation had similar goodexperiences with Mandl.
编辑推荐 《简明量子场论》：This book differs from other quantum field theory books that have come out inrecent years in several respects.
目录
Preface
Convention, Notation, and Units
PART Ⅰ MOTIVATION AND FOUNDATION
Ⅰ.1 Who Needs It?
Ⅰ.2 Path Integral Formulation of Quantum Physics
Ⅰ.3 From Mattress to Field
Ⅰ.4 From Field to Particle to Force
Ⅰ.5 Coulomb and Newton: Repulsion and Attraction
Ⅰ.6 Inverse Square Law and the Floating 3-Brane
Ⅰ.7 Feynman Diagrams
Ⅰ.8 Quantizing Canonically and Disturbing the Vacuum
Ⅰ.9 Symmetry
Ⅰ.10 Field Theory in Curved Spacetime
Ⅰ.11 Field Theory Redux
PART Ⅱ DIRAC AND THE SPINOR
Ⅱ.1 The Dirac Equation
Ⅱ.2 Quantizing the Dirac Field
Ⅱ.3 Lorentz Group and Weyl Spinors
Ⅱ.4 Spin-Statistics Connection
Ⅱ.5 Vacuum Energy, Grassmann Integrals, and Feynman Diagrams for Fermions
Ⅱ.6 Electron Scattering and Gauge Invariance
Ⅱ.7 Diagrammatic Proof of Gauge Invariance
PART Ⅲ RENORMALIZATION AND GAUGE INVARIANCE
Ⅲ.1 Cutting Off Our Ignorance
Ⅲ.2 Renormalizable versus Nonrenormalizable
Ⅲ.3 Counterterms and Physical Perturbation Theory
Ⅲ.4 Gauge Invariance: A Photon Can Find No Rest
Ⅲ.5 Field Theory without Relativity
Ⅲ.6 The Magnetic Moment of the Electron
Ⅲ.7 Polarizing the Vacuum and Renormalizing the Charge
PART Ⅳ SYMMETRY AND SYMMETRY BREAKING
Ⅳ.1 Symmetry Breaking
Ⅳ.2 The Pion as a Nambu-Goldstone Boson
Ⅳ.3 Effective Potential
Ⅳ.4 Magnetic Monopole
Ⅳ.5 Nonabelian Gauge Theory
Ⅳ.6 The Anderson-Higgs Mechanism
Ⅳ.7 Chiral Anomaly
PART Ⅴ FIELD THEORY AND COLLECTIVE PHENOMENA
Ⅴ.1 Superfluids
Ⅴ.2 Euclid, Boltzmann, Hawking, and Field Theory at Finite Temperature
Ⅴ.3 Landau-Ginzburg Theory of Critical Phenomena
Ⅴ.4 Superconductivity
Ⅴ.5 Peierls Instability
Ⅴ.6 Solitons
Ⅴ.7 Vortices, Monopoles, and Instantons
PART Ⅵ FIELD THEORY AND CONDENSED MATTER
Fractional Statistics, Chem-Simons Term, and Topological
Field Theory
Quantum Hall Fluids
Duality
The δ Models as Effective Field Theories
Ferromagnets and Antiferromagnets
Surface Growth and Field Theory
Disorder: Replicas and Grassmannian Symmetry
Renormalization Group Flow as a Natural Concept in
High Energy and Condensed Matter Physics
PART Ⅶ GRAND UNIFICATION
Quantizing Yang-Mills Theory and Lattice Gauge Theory .
Electroweak Unification
Quantum Chromodynamics
Large N Expansion
Grand Unification
Protons Are Not Forever
SO(10) Unification
PART Ⅷ GRAVITY AND BEYOND
Gravity as a Field Theory and the Kaluza-Klein Picture
The Cosmological Constant Problem and the Cosmic
Coincidence Problem
Effective Field Theory Approach to Understanding Nature .
Supersymmetry: A Very Brief Introduction
A Glimpse of String Theory as a 2-Dimensional
Field Theory
Closing Words
APPENDIXES
A Gaussian Integration and the Central Identity of Quantum Field Theory
B A Brief Review of Group Theory
C Feynman Rules
D Various Identities and Feynman Integrals
E Dotted and Undotted Indices and the Majorana Spinor Solutions to Selected Exercises
Further Reading
Index
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序言 As a student, I was rearing at the bit, after a course on quantum mechanics, tolearn quantum field theory, but the books on the subject all seemed so formidable.Fortunately, I came across a little book by Mandl on field theory, which gaveme a taste of the subject enabling me to go on and tackle the more substantivetexts. I have since learned that other physicists of my generation had similar goodexperiences with Mandl.
In the last three decades or so, quantum field theory has veritably exploded andMandl would be hopelessly out of date to recommend to a student now. ThusI thought of writing a book on the essentials of modem quantum field theoryaddressed to the bright and eager student who has just completed a course onquantum mechanics and who is impatient to start tackling quantum field theory.
I envisaged a relatively thin book, thin at least in comparison with the manyweighty tomes on the subject. I envisaged the style to be breezy and colloquial,and the choice of topics to be idiosyncratic, certainly not encyclopedic. I envisagedhaving many short chapters, keeping each chapter "bite-sized."
The challenge in writing this book is to keep it thin and accessible while at thesame time introducing as many modem topics as possible. A tough balancing act！In the end, I had to be unrepentantly idiosyncratic in what I chose to cover. Note tothe prospective book reviewer: You can always criticize the book for leaving outyour favorite topics. I do not apologize in any way, shape, or form. My motto inthis regard （and in life as well）, taken from the Ricky Nelson song "Garden Party,"is "You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself."
This book differs from other quantum field theory books that have come out inrecent years in several respects.
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