Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 8.324 (Fall 2005) 
• Course Title:
• Relativistic Quantum Field Theory II 
• Course Level:
• Graduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Physics 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. Barton Zwiebach 
• Course Introduction:
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  8.324 Relativistic Quantum Field Theory II
  
  
  
  

  Fall 2005

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  This course features an extensive reading list and a complete set of assignments.

  
  
  

  Course Description

  
  
  

  This course is the second course of the quantum field theory trimester sequence beginning with Relativistic Quantum Field Theory I (8.323) and ending with Relativistic Quantum Field Theory III (8.325). It develops in depth some of the topics discussed in 8.323 and introduces some advanced material. Topics include functional path integrals, renormalization and renormalization groups, quantization of nonabelian gauge theories, BRST symmetry, renormalization and symmetry breaking, critical exponents and scalar field theory, and perturbation theory anomalies.