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. David Tong's lecture notes are excellent. 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, is also quite nice.
Lecture Notes
Lecture Notes 1
Lecture Notes 2
Lecture Notes 3
Lecture Notes 4
Lecture Notes 5
Lecture Notes 6
Lecture Notes 7
Lecture Notes 8
Lecture Notes 9
Lecture Notes 10
Lecture Notes 11
Lecture Notes 12
Lecture Notes 13
Lecture Notes 14,
Lecture 14 video - March 24
Lecture Notes 15,
Lecture 15 video - March 26
Lecture Notes 16, Lecture 16 video - March 31
Lecture Notes 17,
Lecture 17 video - April 2
Lecture Notes 18,
Lecture 18 video - April 7
Lecture Notes 19,
Lecture 19 video - April 9
Lecture Notes 20-21,
Lecture 20 video - April 14
Lecture Notes 20-21,
Lecture 21 video - April 16
Lecture Notes 22,
Lecture 22 video - April 21
Lecture Notes 23,
Lecture 23 video - April 23
Lecture Notes 24,
Lecture 24 video - April 28
Material we skipped because of the shortened semester:
Lecture Notes 25 - Extended
Lecture Notes 26 - Extended
Lecture Notes 27 - Extended
Problem sets
Problem Set 1, due Thursday, February 6.
Solutions
Problem Set 2, due Thursday, February 20.
Solutions
Problem Set 3, due Thursday, February 27.
Solutions
Problem Set 4, due Thursday, March 5.
Solutions
Problem Set 5, due Thursday, March 26.
Solutions
Problem Set 6, due Thursday, April 2.
Solutions
Problem Set 7, due Thursday, April 9.
Solutions
Problem Set 8, due Thursday, April 23.
Solutions
Problem Set 9, due Thursday, April 30.
Solutions
Final Exam
Your final exam must be completed over a contiguous 72-hour period, and must be submitted no later than Friday, May 8 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 and videos I have made available to you, and Peskin & Schroeder's textbook. That is all you may refer to for the exam. By submitting the exam, you agree to have abided by the Honor Code.