QUANTUM PHYSICS III

Degree course: 
Corso di Second cycle degree in PHYSICS
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2018/2019
Year: 
1
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2018/2019
Course type: 
Compulsory subjects, characteristic of the class
Language: 
English
Credits: 
6
Period: 
First Semester
Standard lectures hours: 
48
Detail of lecture’s hours: 
Lesson (48 hours)
Requirements: 

Quantum mechanics. Operators in Hilbert spaces. Distribution theory. Analytic functions of a complex variable.

Final Examination: 
Orale

Homework

Assessment: 
Voto Finale

This is course of Relativistic Quantum Mechanics. The main topics is the study of the Dirac equation and the main scattering processes of quantum electrodynamics.

Relativistic quantum mechanics
0. Covariant formulation of classical electrodynamics
1.The Dirac Equation
2.Lorentz covariance
3.Plane wave solutions
4.Non relativistic limit
5.Hole theory
6.Perturbation theory and the Feynman propagator
7.Feynman diagrams
8.Low order processes
9.Renormalization

Landau-Lifshitz Field Theory
Bjorken-Drell Relativistic Quantum Mechanics

Convenzionale

Blackboard lectures

Nothing

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