Quantum Field Theory
An Arcane Setting for Explaining the World
Published on 10. July 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
77 pages
978-1-64327-050-0 (ISBN)
Description
While there are many good books in particle physics, very seldom if ever a non-specialist comprehensive description of Quantum Field Theory has appeared. The intention of this short book is to offer a guided tour of that innermost topic of Theoretical Physics, in plain words and avoiding the mathematical apparatus, but still describing its various facets up to the research frontier, with the aim to give a glimpse of what the human mind has been capable of imagining for dealing with the behavior of Nature at the most fundamental level.
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Language
English
Place of publication
San Rafael
United States
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
166 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64327-050-0 (9781643270500)
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Person
Roberto Iengo is a professor at the PhD Graduate School SISSA (Trieste, Italy), now retired but still affiliated to the Theoretical Particle Physics group. He is author (also spelt as Jengo) of many scientific publications in various aspects of Quantum Field Theory and String Theory. He has taught for years a course in Quantum Field Theory for PhD students. He has also been Director of the SISSA Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Humanities and Science and of the Master in Science Communication.
Content
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Author biography
- 1. Interaction at a distance? Rather, the propagation of a field
- 2. The messengers of the interactions: the 'quanta' of the field
- 3. Matter fields, of an uncommon self-avoiding kind
- 4. Whatever is happening makes an action
- 5. The vacuum: the stage of the fields' play
- 6. The symmetric shape of the action
- 7. Everything fluctuates
- 8. The vacuum is not empty
- 9. What else?
- 10. QFT: what for?
- Appendix: Notes for further insight
- Acknowledgements
- Author biography
- 1. Interaction at a distance? Rather, the propagation of a field
- 2. The messengers of the interactions: the 'quanta' of the field
- 3. Matter fields, of an uncommon self-avoiding kind
- 4. Whatever is happening makes an action
- 5. The vacuum: the stage of the fields' play
- 6. The symmetric shape of the action
- 7. Everything fluctuates
- 8. The vacuum is not empty
- 9. What else?
- 10. QFT: what for?
- Appendix: Notes for further insight