Instructor - Josh Erlich
Small Hall, Room 332B
Office Phone: 757-221-3763
Email: erlich@physics.wm.edu
Course requirements and grade:
Text: This course will be loosely based on M. Peskin and D. Schroeder, An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory. Corrections to the textbook are available here. I will also provide lecture notes, which have been influenced by a number of sources, most notably Sidney Coleman's lectures. You can find video of Coleman's lectures online here, and lecture notes for the first semester transcribed by Brian Hill here and here, and typeset here. I also borrow from Mehran Kardar's Statistical Physics of Fields. Steven Weinberg's three-book series The Quantum Theory of Fields contains insights not found anywhere else as far as I know, and is a useful reference. Matthew Schwartz's book, Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model, also seems quite nice.
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Problem sets
Problem Set 1, due Thursday, January 31.
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Problem Set 2, due Thursday, February 7.
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Problem Set 3, due Thursday, February 14.
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Problem Set 4, due Thursday, February 28.
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Problem Set 5, due Thursday, March 14.
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Problem Set 6, due Thursday, March 21.
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Problem Set 7, due Thursday, March 28.
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Problem Set 8, due Thursday, April 4.
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Problem Set 9, due Thursday, April 11.
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Problem Set 10, due Thursday, April 18.
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Problem Set 11, due Thursday, April 25.
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Final Exam
Your final exam must be completed over a contiguous 72-hour period, and must be submitted no later than Tuesday, May 7 at 5pm. Do not download the exam until you are ready to begin the exam. You may use any notes you have taken, any notes I have made available to you, and Peskin & Schroeder's textbook. That is all you may refer to for the exam.