Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Acknowledgements for the first edition
- Acknowledgements for the second edition
- I Introduction to methods
- 1 QFT: language and goals
- 2 Connection between quantum and classical: path integrals
- 3 Definitions of correlation functions: Wick's theorem
- 4 Free bosonic field in an external field
- 5 Perturbation theory: Feynman diagrams
- 6 Calculation methods for diagram series: divergences and their elimination
- 7 Renormalization group procedures
- 8 O(N)-symmetric vector model below the transition point
- 9 Nonlinear sigma models in two dimensions: renormalization group and 1/N-expansion
- 10 O(3) nonlinear sigma model in the strong coupling limit
- II Fermions
- III Strongly fluctuating spin systems
- IV Physics in the world of one spatial dimension
- Select bibliography
- Index
1 - QFT: language and goals
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Acknowledgements for the first edition
- Acknowledgements for the second edition
- I Introduction to methods
- 1 QFT: language and goals
- 2 Connection between quantum and classical: path integrals
- 3 Definitions of correlation functions: Wick's theorem
- 4 Free bosonic field in an external field
- 5 Perturbation theory: Feynman diagrams
- 6 Calculation methods for diagram series: divergences and their elimination
- 7 Renormalization group procedures
- 8 O(N)-symmetric vector model below the transition point
- 9 Nonlinear sigma models in two dimensions: renormalization group and 1/N-expansion
- 10 O(3) nonlinear sigma model in the strong coupling limit
- II Fermions
- III Strongly fluctuating spin systems
- IV Physics in the world of one spatial dimension
- Select bibliography
- Index
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- Quantum Field Theory in Condensed Matter Physics , pp. 3 - 14Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003