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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I Canonical quantization and particle production
- 1 Overview: a taste of quantum fields
- 2 Reminder: classical and quantum theory
- 3 Driven harmonic oscillator
- 4 From harmonic oscillators to fields
- 5 Reminder: classical fields
- 6 Quantum fields in expanding universe
- 7 Quantum fields in the de Sitter universe
- 8 Unruh effect
- 9 Hawking effect. Thermodynamics of black holes
- 10 The Casimir effect
- Part II Path integrals and vacuum polarization
- Appendix 1 Mathematical supplement
- Appendix 2 Backreaction derived from effective action
- Appendix 3 Mode expansions cheat sheet
- Appendix 4 Solutions to exercises
- Index
5 - Reminder: classical fields
from Part I - Canonical quantization and particle production
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I Canonical quantization and particle production
- 1 Overview: a taste of quantum fields
- 2 Reminder: classical and quantum theory
- 3 Driven harmonic oscillator
- 4 From harmonic oscillators to fields
- 5 Reminder: classical fields
- 6 Quantum fields in expanding universe
- 7 Quantum fields in the de Sitter universe
- 8 Unruh effect
- 9 Hawking effect. Thermodynamics of black holes
- 10 The Casimir effect
- Part II Path integrals and vacuum polarization
- Appendix 1 Mathematical supplement
- Appendix 2 Backreaction derived from effective action
- Appendix 3 Mode expansions cheat sheet
- Appendix 4 Solutions to exercises
- Index
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- Introduction to Quantum Effects in Gravity , pp. 54 - 63Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007