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Introduction to Quantum Field Theory

Module PH2113 [QFT KM]

This module handbook serves to describe contents, learning outcome, methods and examination type as well as linking to current dates for courses and module examination in the respective sections.

Module version of SS 2011

There are historic module descriptions of this module. A module description is valid until replaced by a newer one.

Whether the module’s courses are offered during a specific semester is listed in the section Courses, Learning and Teaching Methods and Literature below.

available module versions
SS 2016SS 2011

Basic Information

PH2113 is a semester module in German language at Master’s level which is offered in summer semester.

This module description is valid to WS 2015/6.

If not stated otherwise for export to a non-physics program the student workload is given in the following table.

Total workloadContact hoursCredits (ECTS)
300 h 110 h 10 CP

Responsible coordinator of the module PH2113 in the version of SS 2011 was Wilhelm Zwerger.

Content, Learning Outcome and Preconditions

Content

Das Modul gibt eine Einführung in die Grundlagen der Quantenfeldtheorie und Ihrer Anwendungen in verschiedenen Gebieten der Physik. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf dem physikalischen Verständnis der grundlegenden Konzepte. Der Inhalt gliedert sich wie folgt:

  1. Bosonische Felder
    • Elastisches Kontinuum und das Klein-Gordon-Feld
    • Funktional-Integral-Beschreibung von Teilchen und Feldern
    • Wechselwirkende relativistische Felder, S-Matrix
    • Wechselwirkende nichtrelativistische Bose-Felder, Bose-Einstein-Kondensation
  2. Fermionen und Eichfelder
    • Spinor-Darstellungen der Lorentz-Gruppe, Dirac-Feld
    • Spin-Statistik und CPT-Theorem
    • Eichinvarianz, QED
    • Ladungsrenormierung und anomales magnetisches Moment in der QED
    • Nichtabelsche Eichfelder
    • Asymptotische Freiheit in der QCD
  3. Gebrochene Symmetrien
    • Noether-Theorem, Enerie-Impuls-Tensor, Skaleninvarianz
    • Spontande Symmetriebrechung, Goldstone-Theorem, Coleman-Weinberg Potential
    • Anderson-Higgs-Kibble-Mechanismus

Learning Outcome

no info

Preconditions

Keine Vorkenntnisse nötig, die über die Zulassungsvoraussetzungen zum Masterstudium hinausgehen.

Courses, Learning and Teaching Methods and Literature

Learning and Teaching Methods

Vortrag, Beamerpräsentation, Übungen in Einzel- und Gruppenarbeit, Diskussion

Media

no info

Literature

A. Zee, Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell , Princeton University Press

Module Exam

Description of exams and course work

In an oral exam the learning outcome is tested using comprehension questions and sample problems.

In accordance with §12 (8) APSO the exam can be done as a written test. In this case the time duration is 90 minutes.

Exam Repetition

The exam may be repeated at the end of the semester.

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