Quantum Field Theory 2

This course presents the path integral formulation of Quantum Mechanics, and Quantum Field Theory, with applications to scalar field theory and Quantum Electrodynamics. The course runs over five weeks, covering the following topics

1. Path-integral formulation of Quantum Mechanics

2. Path-integral formulation of scalar field theories: generating functionals for Green's functions

3. From Green's functions to scattering amplitudes: LSZ formalism and Feynman rules

4. Path-integral formulation of fermionic field theories

5. Quantum Electro-Dynamics: formulation and Feynman rules

Lecturers: Prof Elena Accomando (e.accomando@soton.ac.uk) & Prof Alexander Belyaev (a.belyaev@soton.ac.uk)

This course will have the following format:

• students are expected to watch recorded lectures and read materials available  at link below; 

• lecturers will discuss material in depth as well as problems and questions with students during our sessions;

• there are two interactive sessions each week, for Soton students they will take place  face-to-face in bld 46, room 5011 and for the rest  they will be  delivered via Microsoft Teams, see the link in the calendar. Sessions will be on  Mondays 12:00-13:00 and Thursdays 14:00-15:00 which will run from 26th of January till 23rd of February.

Learning material links are available here

The lectures can be accessed through previous recordings on Visionable. Visionable can be used via WEB browser and can be reached here https://janet.iocom.com/. At this website you should register yourself. Once registered, you will be able to login and get an access to the web-client https://janet.iocom.com/v1806/ . Then you should find among recordings (in the menu on the left-side)  the lectures from 2020 by Steve King,  starting with the  QFT2_S_King_*