《量子場理論:解釋世界的神秘背景(英文)》是一部引進(jìn)版權(quán)的英文科普著作,書名可譯為《量子場理論:解釋世界的神秘背景》。 量子場論(簡稱QFT)可以追溯到20世紀(jì)30年代,但是在那個(gè)時(shí)代,只有量子電動(dòng)力學(xué)是確定存在的,還有其他關(guān)于QFT的理論研究,但作為解釋世界基本定律的理論,它得到全面認(rèn)可是在20世紀(jì)60年代末到70年代初的那幾年,這些發(fā)展產(chǎn)生的結(jié)果構(gòu)成了所謂的粒子物理學(xué)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)模型,這個(gè)模型已經(jīng)被許多實(shí)驗(yàn)觀察徹底地檢驗(yàn)和證實(shí)了。它描繪了一幅可以被看作是概括量子電動(dòng)力學(xué)的圖畫:物質(zhì)根據(jù)它的各種電荷與各種輻射相互作用。
羅伯特·勒戈(Roberto lengo),意大利國際高等研究院(SISSA)的教授,理論粒子物理小組的成員,曾擔(dān)任意大利國際高等研究院人文科學(xué)跨學(xué)科實(shí)驗(yàn)室主任.他在量子場論和弦論等方面撰寫了許多專著,并且多年來一直為博士生教授量子場論的課程,
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Author biography
1 Interaction at a distance? Rather, the propagation of a field
1.1 Static fields perhaps well known
1.2 Time dependent fields perhaps less well known
1.2.1 Signals in spacetime
1.2.2 The four-vector potential
1.2.3 Waves
1.3 Bibliography
2 The messengers of the interactions: the 'quanta' of the field
2.1 The revenge of the integers
2.2 Quanta as particles
2.2.1 Photons
2.2.2 Zero mass for the photon
2.3 Quanta as waves
2.4 Two other, less familiar, fundamental fields and their quanta
2.5 Weak interactions
2.6 Strong interactions
2.7 Radiation fields: a collective name
2.8 Bibliography
3 Matter fields, of an uncommon self-avoiding kind
3.1 The need for new unusual anti-commuting numbers
3.2 Matter quanta. An interlude
3.2.1 Particles and antiparticles
3.2.2 Left or right spinning
3.2.3 The Dirac equation
3.2.4 The number of matter particles cannot change
3.3 Matter fields
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4 Whatever is happening makes an action
5 The vacuum: the stage of the fields' play
6 The symmetric shape of the action
7 Everything fluctuates
8 The vacuum is not empty
9 What else?
10 QFT: what for?
Appendix: Notes for further insight
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