Effective Field Theory for Spontaneously Broken Symmetry
Author: Tomáš Brauner
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 3031483782
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Boulevard of Broken Symmetries
Author: Adriaan M. J. Schakel
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 981281390X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis textbook covers the main topics in contemporary condensed matter physics in a modern and unified way, using quantum field theory in the functional-integral approach. The book highlights symmetry aspects in acknowledging that much of the collective behaviors of condensed matter systems at low temperatures emerge above a nontrivial ground state, which spontaneously breaks the symmetry.The emphasis is on effective field theories which provide an efficient and powerful description that is valid at long wavelengths and low frequencies. In conjunction with the emphasis on effective theories, a modern approach towards renormalization is taken, whereby a wavenumber cut-off is introduced to set a scale beyond which the microscopic model under consideration ceases to be valid. The unique and innovative character of this presentation, free of historical constraints, allows for a compact and self-contained treatment of the main topics in contemporary condensed matter physics.
Introduction to Effective Field Theory
Author: C. P. Burgess
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-12-10
Total Pages: 665
ISBN-13: 0521195470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis advanced, accessible textbook on effective field theories uses worked examples to bring this important topic to a wider audience.
Dynamical Symmetry Breaking in Quantum Field Theories
Author: V. A. Miransky
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9789810215583
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe phenomenon of dynamical symmetry breaking (DSB) in quantum field theory is discussed in a detailed and comprehensive way. The deep connection between this phenomenon in condensed matter physics and particle physics is emphasized. The realizations of DSB in such realistic theories as quantum chromodynamics and electroweak theory are considered. Issues intimately connected with DSB such as critical phenomenona and effective lagrangian approach are also discussed.
Boulevard Of Broken Symmetries: Effective Field Theories Of Condensed Matter
Author: Adriaan M J Schakel
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Published: 2008-10-28
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9813107197
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis textbook covers the main topics in contemporary condensed matter physics in a modern and unified way, using quantum field theory in the functional-integral approach. The book highlights symmetry aspects in acknowledging that much of the collective behaviors of condensed matter systems at low temperatures emerge above a nontrivial ground state, which spontaneously breaks the symmetry.The emphasis is on effective field theories which provide an efficient and powerful description that is valid at long wavelengths and low frequencies. In conjunction with the emphasis on effective theories, a modern approach towards renormalization is taken, whereby a wavenumber cut-off is introduced to set a scale beyond which the microscopic model under consideration ceases to be valid.The unique and innovative character of this presentation, free of historical constraints, allows for a compact and self-contained treatment of the main topics in contemporary condensed matter physics.
Dynamical Gauge Symmetry Breaking
Author: Edward Farhi
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9789971950248
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a collection of original papers on dynamical gauge symmetry breaking, and is intended for graduate students and researchers in theoretical physics (elementary particle physics and others) who have an understanding of basic quantum field theory. The book can serve as a research text for those requiring an introduction to dynamical gauge symmetry breaking and as a reference text for active researchers. The important papers in the field that are included deal with attempts to apply the ideas to realistic models of elementary particle interactions. A historical critique by the editors provides an introductory review.
Aspects of Symmetry
Author: Sidney Coleman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1988-02-18
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 1139810960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor almost two decades, Sidney Coleman has been giving review lectures on frontier topics in theoretical high-energy physics at the International School of Subnuclear Physics held each year at Erice, Sicily. This volume is a collection of some of the best of these lectures. To this day they have few rivals for clarity of exposition and depth of insight. Although very popular when first published, many of the lectures have been difficult to obtain recently. Graduate students and professionals in high-energy physics will welcome this collection by a master of the field.
Symmetries and Symmetry Breaking in Field Theory
Author: Parthasarathi Mitra
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 1466581050
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany courses on modern quantum field theory focus on the formulation and application of field theory, leaving topics related to symmetry underdeveloped. This leads to students often having an incomplete understanding of symmetries. Filling this gap, Symmetries and Symmetry Breaking in Field Theory sheds light on various aspects of symmetry in field
Introduction to Effective Field Theory
Author: C. P. Burgess
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-12-10
Total Pages: 665
ISBN-13: 1108915892
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing examples from across the sub-disciplines of physics, this introduction shows why effective field theories are the language in which physical laws are written. The tools of effective field theory are demonstrated using worked examples from areas including particle, nuclear, atomic, condensed matter and gravitational physics. To bring the subject within reach of scientists with a wide variety of backgrounds and interests, there are clear physical explanations, rigorous derivations, and extensive appendices on background material, such as quantum field theory. Starting from undergraduate-level quantum mechanics, the book gets to state-of-the-art calculations using both relativistic and nonrelativistic few-body and many-body examples, and numerous end-of-chapter problems derive classic results not covered in the main text. Graduate students and researchers in particle physics, condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, string theory, and mathematical physics more generally, will find this book ideal for both self-study and for organized courses on effective field theory.
Galileo Unbound
Author: David D. Nolte
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-07-12
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0192528505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGalileo Unbound traces the journey that brought us from Galileo's law of free fall to today's geneticists measuring evolutionary drift, entangled quantum particles moving among many worlds, and our lives as trajectories traversing a health space with thousands of dimensions. Remarkably, common themes persist that predict the evolution of species as readily as the orbits of planets or the collapse of stars into black holes. This book tells the history of spaces of expanding dimension and increasing abstraction and how they continue today to give new insight into the physics of complex systems. Galileo published the first modern law of motion, the Law of Fall, that was ideal and simple, laying the foundation upon which Newton built the first theory of dynamics. Early in the twentieth century, geometry became the cause of motion rather than the result when Einstein envisioned the fabric of space-time warped by mass and energy, forcing light rays to bend past the Sun. Possibly more radical was Feynman's dilemma of quantum particles taking all paths at once — setting the stage for the modern fields of quantum field theory and quantum computing. Yet as concepts of motion have evolved, one thing has remained constant, the need to track ever more complex changes and to capture their essence, to find patterns in the chaos as we try to predict and control our world.
