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1、ThispageintentionallyleftblankModernQuantumFieldTheoryAConciseIntroductionQuantumfieldtheoryisakeysubjectinphysics,withapplicationsinparticleandcondensedmatterphysics.Treatingavarietyoftopicsthatareonlybrieflytouchedoninothertexts,thisbookprovidesathoroughintroductiontothetechniquesoffieldtheo
2、ry.ThebookcoversFeynmandiagramsandpathintegrals,andemphasizesthepathintegralapproach,theWilsonianapproachtorenormalization,andthephysicsofnon-abeliangaugetheory.Itprovidesathoroughtreatmentofquarkconfinementandchiralsymmetrybreaking,topicsnotusuallycoveredinothertextsatthislevel.TheStandardM
3、odelofparticlephysicsisdiscussedindetail.Connectionswithcondensedmatterphysicsareexplored,andthereisabrief,butdetailed,treatmentofnon-perturbativesemi-classicalmethods(instantonsandsolitons).Idealforgraduatestudentsinhighenergyphysicsandcondensedmatterphysics,thebookcontainsmanyproblems,pro
4、vidingstudentswithhands-onexperiencewiththemethodsofquantumfieldtheory.ThomasBanksisProfessorofPhysicsattheSantaCruzInstituteforParticlePhysics(SCIPP),UniversityofCalifornia,andNHETC,RutgersUniversity.Heisconsideredoneoftheleadersinhighenergyparticletheoryandstringtheory,andwasco-discoverero
5、ftheMatrixTheoryapproachtonon-perturbativestringtheory.ModernQuantumFieldTheoryAConciseIntroductionTomBanksUniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruzandRutgersUniversityCAMBRIDGEUNIVERSITYPRESSCambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore,SãoPauloCambridgeUniversityPressTheEdinburghBuilding,C
6、ambridgeCB28RU,UKPublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYorkwww.cambridge.orgInformationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521850827©T.Banks2008Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexceptionandtotheprovisionofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements,noreprodu
7、ctionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress.Firstpublishedinprintformat2008ISBN-13978-0-511-42899-9eBook(EBL)ISBN-13978-0-521-85082-7hardbackCambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyofurlsf