This course will be online. The timetable may be adapted to solve possible conflicts with other courses.
The enrolment key has been removed, feel free to join.
First lecture: Tuesday 13.04.21 from 13.00 to 15.00.
Planned topics:
- Introduction to the path-integral formulation of Quantum Field Theory
- Wick rotation, Euclidean Quantum Field Theory, Statistical Mechanical interpretation
- Lattice discretization of the scalar field theory
- Analysis of the free scalar theory, and lattice perturbation theory
- How to calculate particle masses in non-perturbative QFT
- Definition and geometrical properties of gauge theories
- Wilson action for QED and the Yang-Mills theory, Haar measure and path integral
- Fermionic degrees of freedom and Grassmann variables
- Doubling "problem" and Wilson fermions
- QCD: symmetries and continuum limit
- Elements of Monte Carlo simulations for lattice QFT
- Kursverantwortliche/r: Prof. Dr. Agostino Patella
Semester: SoSe 2021