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Frederic Paul Schuller QFT notes
I have heard that Fredric Paul schuller gave a lecture on Quantum field theory once. Can someone provide me with the lecture notes of that course?
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Solutions to problems in Schwartz QFT and the Standard Model
I am currently self studying QFT using Schwartz's book but I am unable to find any solutions to the exercises. Does anyone know if a solution manual exists for this book or if solutions are available ...
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Weinberg on the Dirac Equation
I am searching for a reference I read and then misplaced, in which Weinberg asserts that the Dirac equation's prediction of the positron is a characteristic of any equation which has the general form ...
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Translation of Fock's original paper?
Has the original paper on the Fock space [1] ever been translated to English? I'm not looking for things like Cook's paper [2], what I want is a faithful traslation from German (if it exists).
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Solution manual to Fetter & Walecka Quantum Theory of Many-Particle Systems [closed]
I am a senior physics major guy, I am trying to self-learn QFT and many body dynamics. I was doing okay till chapter 3. I am in need to a solution manual to see if I am getting the answers correctly ...
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Advanced quantum field theory by David Tong
In his freely available lectures on Gauge Theories and String Theory, David Tong makes multiple references to a course called Advanced Quantum Field Theory (in particular, the Faddeev-Popov trick ...
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Does somebody know where to find original paper of Lehmann, Symanzik and Zimmerman (LSZ) translated in English?
Does anybody know where to find the original paper about LSZ reduction formula translated in english? Unfortunately, I've only found the original German article:
H. Lehmann, K. Symanzik, and W. ...
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What is the publication through which Zinn-Justin published what has come to be known as the "Zinn-Justin equation"?
does anybody know which publication contains the introduction of what has come to known as the Zinn-Justin equation?
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External momenta vs loop momenta in Feynman diagrams
In Peskin and Schroeder's book on QFT, the second paragraph of chapter 12 says,
In a renormalizable theory, the loop integrals over virtual-particle momenta are always dominated by values ...
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Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model by Matthew Schwartz - Solution's manual [closed]
Is there a way I can find a solution's manual for Matthew Schwartz's "Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model" book?
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Experimental evidence for non-abelian anyons?
Since non-abelian anyons have become quite fashionable from the point of view of theory. I would like to know, whether there has actually been experimental confirmation of such objects.
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What does $\text{VAC}$ mean in Weinberg's QFT?
Hopefully Weinberg is sufficiently popular that this question isn't too localized. I'm reading Volume II (16.1, p. 63) and he refers to the state $\lvert\text{VAC}\rangle$ quite a lot. Does this mean ...
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Fermion zero modes under 1+1 D Higgs spacetime vortex?
Jackiw and Rossi had a classic paper Zero modes of the vortex-fermion system (1981). In that nice-written paper, they found fermionic zero modes of Dirac operator under nontrivial Higgs vortex in 2D ...
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Helicity for Zero Rest Mass Field Equations
I'm trying to reconcile the usual definition of the helicity operator, namely
$$ h = \hat{p}.S$$
with the definition of a massless helicity $n$ field as a symmetric spinor field $\phi^{A\dots B}$ ...
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A classically trivial quantum field theory of electromagnetism
Presumably there is a field theory of electromagnetism that classically gives trivial equations of motion, but when quantized shows interesting topological phenomena. I am talking about the Lagrangian ...
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