Time, place

Spring/Summer Semester 2021 (April - August)
Thursdays 13:30 - 15:00
Science D403

Instructor

細谷 裕 (Yutaka Hosotani, Professor Emeritus)
http://www-het.phys.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp/~hosotani/
Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science
Room : Science H725
Phone: (06) 6850 - 5733
E-mail : hosotani (followed by) @het.phys.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp

Information

Lectures are given in the room D403. CLE system is also used. All lecture notes, homework sets, solutions are posted on the CLE page.
Watch out the coronavirus infection.

You must wear a mask and keep social distance in the classroom.

Schedule

Lecture Homework due date
4/15 1. Action principle in field theory HW1 4/22
4/22 2. Canonical quantization
3. Quantization of Schrodinger fields
HW2 5/6
4/29 Holiday
5/6 4. Scalar fields
HW3 5/13
5/13 4. Scalar fields (continued)
HW4
5/20
5/27 5. Complex scalar fields
6. Dirac fields
canonical quantization
HW5 6/3
6/3 6. Dirac fields (part 2)
covariant relations, mode expansion, H, P, statistics,
HW6
6/10
6/10 6. Dirac fields (part 3)
charge conjugation, electric current
HW7
6/17
6/17 7. Symmetry
8. Noether's theorem

HW8
6/24
6/24 8. Noether's theorem (continued)
HW9
7/1
7/1 9. Invariant perturbation theory
interaction picture, perturbation theory, S-matrix
HW10
7/8
7/8 9. Invariant perturbation theory (part 2)
Wick's theorem, Gell-Mann-Low relations
HW11 7/15
7/15 9. Invariant perturbation theory (part 3)
connected diagrams, Gell-Mann-Low relations 2
10. Feynman rules
11. Bubble diagrams
HW12
7/29
7/22 Holiday
7/29 12. Transition amplitudes
Feynman rules 2
HW13 8/5
8/5 13. Cross sections and decay rates
in various scalar field theories

HW14 8/12
-- 14. Spin sum and average for fermions
15. Scattering and potential
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points average highest
 HW1  20 14.4 20
HW2 30 24.6 30
HW3 30 23.6 29
HW4 20 15.3 20
HW5 20 16.2 20
HW6 40 19.4 30
HW7 20 13.8 20
HW8 20 14.3 20
HW9 30 20.6 30
HW10 30 23.6 30
HW11 30 19.1 30
HW12 40 23.7 37
HW13 30 18.4 27
HW14 40 26.2 40