QUANTUM PHYSICS III
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Degree course:
Corso di Second cycle degree in PHYSICS
Academic year when starting the degree:
2023/2024
Year:
1
Academic year in which the course will be held:
2023/2024
Course type:
Compulsory subjects, characteristic of the class
Language:
English
Credits:
8
Period:
First Semester
Standard lectures hours:
64
Detail of lecture’s hours:
Lesson (64 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
Convenzionale
Blackboard lectures
Oral examination
Exercises at the blackboard
Theoretical questions.