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The Physics of Quantum Fields Softcover Repri Edition
Contributor(s): Stone, Michael (Author)

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 ISBN: 1461267943     ISBN-13: 9781461267942
Publisher: Springer
OUR PRICE: $52.24  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Science | Physics - Quantum Theory
- Computers | Information Technology
- Science | Waves & Wave Mechanics
Dewey: 530.143
Series: Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" L (0.90 lbs) 271 pages
 
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This book is intended to provide a general introduction to the physics of quantized fields and many-body physics. It is based on a two-semester sequence of courses taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign at various times between 1985 and 1997. The students taking all or part of the sequence had interests ranging from particle and nuclear theory through quantum optics to condensed matter physics experiment. The book does not cover as much ground as some texts. This is because I have tried to concentrate on the basic conceptual issues that many students find difficult. For a computation-method oriented course an instructor would probably wish to suplement this book with a more comprehensive and specialized text such as Peskin and Schroeder An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, which is intended for particle theorists, or perhaps the venerable Quantum Theory of Many-Particle Systems by Fetter and Walecka. The most natural distribution of the material if the book is used for a two-semster course is as follows: 1 st Semester: Chapters 1-11. 2nd semester: Chapters 12-18.
 
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