This channel contains videos of lectures (and any other materials) for the course Physics 4Q03, an Introduction to Quantum Field Theory.
Check out the course web-page (here) for more information about syllabus, procedures, term projects, marking schemes and lecture notes.
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Physics 4Q03 Tutorial Weds April 14: This is the final tutorial spent taking up part of the midterm and answering questions. Good luck with your exams!
Final Tutorial
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Physics 4Q03 Lecture 28: This lecture applies the framework of relativistic quantum fields to the simplest case of a spinless particle and constructs the Klein Gordon…
28_Klein-Gordon Field and Lagrangians
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Physics 4Q03 Lecture 27: This lecture describes the logic that determines which fields can be used to represent particles of different spins, and describes the…
27-Microcausality
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Physics 4Q03 Lecture 26: This lecture works through how Poincare generators (4-momentum and the angular momentum tensor) transform in quantum relativity. A sketch is…
26-Poincare Generators
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Physics 4Q03 Lecture 25: This lecture finishes the general review of special relativity in terms of 4-vectors and reviews the treatment of symmetry in quantum mechanics.
25 Symmetries in QM
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Physics 4Q03 Lecture 24: This lecture summarizes some aspects of special relativity, including its formulation in terms of the Lorentz group.
24-Relativity
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Physics 4Q03 Lecture 23: This lecture starts with a summary of renormalization for Casimir energy in a waveguide, and closes with the start of a summary of Special…
23-CasimirProb-StartOfRelativity
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Physics 4Q03 Lecture 22: This lecture recaps the previous ones and completes the interactions of a nonrelativistic charged particle to include the Coulomb interaction.
22-CoulombInteraction
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Physics 4Q03 Lecture 21: This lecture describes how the electromagnetic vector potential (ie photons) couple to nonrelativistic charged particles, constructing the…
21-EM couplings to charged particles
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Physics 4Q03 Lecture 20: This lecture describes how to construct interactions between electromagnetic fields and the Schrodinger fields that describe slowly moving…
20-EM Interactions w Polarizable Atoms
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Physics 4Q03 Lecture 19: This lecture evaluates the Casimir energy for the vacuum fluctuations of a field between two plates on which the field vanishes, showing that it…
19-Casimir Energy
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Physics 4Q03 Lecture 18: This lecture continues the previous one on photons in electromagnetism, and provides a sermon about UV and IR divergences and why you can use…
18-MorePhotonsEM
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Physics 4Q03 Lecture 17: This lecture continues the discussion of quantizing the electromagnetic fields and shows how field energy and momentum can be written in terms…
17-PhotonsInQED
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Physics 4Q03 Lecture 16: This lecture provides a whirlwind review of Maxwell's equations and their solutions in terms of electromagnetic waves. This allows an…
16-MaxwellsEqs
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Physics 4Q03 Lecture 15: This lecture describes the leading corrections to the classical BEC, using a Bogoliubov transformation to identify the spectrum of quasiparticle…
15-Bogliubov
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Physics 4Q03 Lecture 14: This lecture continues the discussion of Bose Einstein condensation and shows how a semiclassical analysis can allow a calculation of the…
14-Semiclassical BEC
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Physics 4Q03 Lecture 12: This lecture summarizes the position space formalism of the previous lecture and introduces simple self-interactions.
12-PositionSpace Interactions
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Physics 4Q03 Lecture 13: This lecture reviews how to set up averages with statistical mechanics, translating the grand canonical ensemble into the language of occupation…
13-BE Condensation
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Physics 4Q03 Tutorial Feb 22, 2021
QFT-Tut-210222
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Physics 4Q03 Tutorial Feb 11, 2021
QFT-Tut-210211
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Physics 4Q03 Tutorial Feb 10, 2021
QFT-Tut-210210
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Physics 4Q03 Tutorial Feb 08, 2021
QFT-Tut-210208
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4Q03 Lecture 11; This lecture argues why the Hamiltonian should arise as a local function in space, and this is used to motivate the definition of position-space fields.…
11-Locality2ndQuantization
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4Q03 Lecture 10: This lecture computes the energy shift of a particle due to its interaction with another, introducing ultraviolet divergences and the concept of…
10-FieldEnergyRenorm
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