Index - Relativistic Quantum Mechanics & Quantum Field Theory
- Action of a scalar field theory as a momentum integral
- Adjoint Dirac equation
- Adjoint Dirac equation: explicit solutions
- Alternative normalization for Dirac spinors
- Anticommutation relations and Hamiltonian for Dirac field
- Anticommutators, creation and annihilation operators in the Dirac equation
- Boson decay rate: sum over spins
- Boson decay with modified Yukawa interaction
- Bremsstrahlung: cross-section summed over polarization
- Canonical momenta for electromagnetic fields
- Causality in the Klein-Gordon field
- Causality in the Klein-Gordon field: commutators and measurements
- Charge conjugation
- Charge conjugation and currents
- Charge conjugation in quantum electrodynamics
- Charge conjugation matrix: explicit representations
- Charge conjugation matrix: some properties
- Charge conjugation of Dirac spinors
- Charge form factor
- Charged pion decay
- Chirality projection operator and eigenvectors of gamma-5
- Classical field theory
- Classical particle mechanics
- Coherent states: balanced uncertainty
- Coherent states: Dirac's phase operator
- Coherent states of the harmonic oscillator: overlap of states
- Coherent states of the harmonic oscillator: uncertainty relations
- Coherent states: position and momentum wave function
- Commutator of conserved charge with field
- Commutators of complex scalar field with conserved charge
- Commutator of real scalar fields at general times
- Commutator of real scalar field with momentum
- Commutator of two hermitian operators
- Commutators of complex scalar fields at general times
- Complex fields
- Complex scalar field - Hamiltonian
- Complex scalar field: Internal transformation
- Complex scalar field - quantization, particles and antiparticles
- Connected and disconnected Wick diagrams
- Compton scattering: cross-section
- Connected correlation function in field theory
- Constructing a scalar quantum field 1
- Continuous internal symmetries
- Coordinate transformations in classical field theory
- Counterterms in interaction hamiltonians
- Coupled oscillators in terms of creation and annihilation operators; phonons
- CP transformations in fermion interactions
- CP transformations of interaction matrices
- Creation and annihilation operators for the 3-d harmonic oscillator
- Creation and annihilation operators in the harmonic oscillator
- Creation and annihilation operators in the harmonic oscillator: a few theorems
- Creation and annihilation operators: commutators and anticommutators
- Creation and annihilation operators: normalization
- Creation and destruction operators for a free scalar field
- Currents from spacetime translations and the energy-momentum tensor
- Decay of a moving boson into a fermion-antifermion pair
- Decay rates
- Delta function: a couple of alternative derivations
- Dirac creation and annihilation operators as Fourier transforms
- Dirac equation
- Dirac equation as four coupled differential equations
- Dirac equation in quantum field theory: Lagrangian density
- Dirac equation in relativistic quantum mechanics: summary
- Dirac equation: 4 solution vectors
- Dirac equation: adjoint solutions
- Dirac equation: angular momentum
- Dirac equation: conserved probability current
- Dirac equation: gamma matrices and \gamma^{5}
- Dirac equation: inner products of spinors
- Dirac equation: linear independence of matrices
- Dirac equation: lorentz covariance
- Dirac equation: matrix properties
- Dirac equation: non-relativistic limit
- Dirac equation: nonuniqueness of solutions
- Dirac equation: orthogonality of solutions
- Dirac equation: positive probabilities and negative energies
- Dirac equation: set of independent matrices
- Dirac equation: spin of a moving particle
- Dirac equation: spin of a particle at rest
- Dirac equation: spinors near the speed of light
- Dirac equation: the gamma matrices
- Dirac spin operator in quantum field theory
- Dirac spinors: Gordon identity
- Dirac spinors: normalization
- Dirac spinors: products of spinors
- Discrete Fourier transforms
- Dyson's formula and time ordering
- Eigenfunctions of position and momentum; unit operators
- Eigenspinors of the Pauli spin matrices
- Electric dipole and anapole moments
- Electromagnetic Lorentz invariant
- Electromagnetism: Lagrangian using projection operators
- Electromagnetism: Quantum hamiltonian in coulomb gauge
- Electron-electron & Positron-positron scattering
- Electron-electron scattering: High-energy limit
- Electron-electron scattering in the Yukawa interaction
- Electron & muon-neutrino scattering
- Electron & muon-neutrino scattering - minimum neutrino energy
- Energy-momentum tensor: commutator of field with conserved charge
- Energy-momentum tensor for electromagnetism
- Energy-momentum tensor for Klein-Gordon Lagrangian
- Energy-momentum tensor for a general Lagrange density
- Energy projection operators in the Dirac equation
- Euler-Lagrange equations for a free particle in an electromagnetic field
- Euler-Lagrange equations for particle & field theories; Lagrangian density
- Euler-Lagrange equations: a couple of examples
- Evolution operator
- Exact solution of Coleman's Model 1
- Explicit solutions of Dirac equation in Dirac-Pauli representation
- Explicit solutions of Dirac equation from particle's rest frame
- Extension of classical field theory to quantum field theory
- Fabri-Picasso theorem
- Fermat's principle of least time and Snell's law
- Fermion scattering - fourth-order Feynman diagrams
- Fermion wave functions; the Slater determinant
- Feynman amplitude & rules: vertices, edges and loops
- Feynman diagrams for ABA theory
- Feynman diagrams for phi-cubed theory
- Feynman propagator as a contour integral
- Feynman propagator for a complex scalar field: Time ordering
- Feynman propagator as a single real integral
- Feynman propagator for a scalar field (Lahiri & Pal)
- Feynman propagator for scalar fields
- Feynman propagator in terms of commutators
- Feynman propagator: from commutator to integral
- Field operators for the infinite square well
- Fock space - Number operator
- Forced harmonic oscillator: coherent state
- Fourier transform of Yukawa potential
- Free scalar Hamiltonian as an integral of the Hamiltonian density
- Free spinless particle and causality
- From mattress to field
- Functional derivative: a 4-dimensional example
- Functional derivatives and the Lagrangian
- Functional derivatives: more examples
- Functionals and functional derivatives
- Gamma matrices: a curious example
- Gamma matrices: contractions
- Gamma matrices in Dirac-Pauli representation
- Gamma matrices: Objects behaving like vectors or tensors
- Gaussian integrals: averages of powers of x
- Gauge-fixing in electromagnetism
- Gaussian integrals: averages over matrix components and the Wick contraction
- Gaussian integrals: single variable & matrix exponents
- General electromagnetic vertex
- General infinitesimal Lorentz transformation
- Generalized commutator
- Generating functional for harmonic oscillator
- Generating functional for phi-4 theory
- Generators of the Lorentz group
- Generators of the Lorentz group - alternative derivation of the Commutators
- Generators of the Lorentz group - Commutators
- Generators of the Lorentz group for 4-vectors
- Generators of the Lorentz group - Momentum Commutators
- Generators of the translation operator
- Goldstone's theorem
- Green function for a forced harmonic oscillator
- Green function for diffusion equation
- Green function for infinite square well
- Green function for klein-gordon equation
- Green function for the wave equation
- Green functions and the Schrödinger equation
- Green functions in the energy domain
- Green's function for Klein-Gordon equation
- Hamilton's equations and Poisson brackets
- Hamilton's equations for relativistic fields; conjugate momentum
- Hamilton's equations of motion in classical field theory
- Hamiltonian density for the Dirac equation
- Hamiltonian for complex scalar field
- Hamiltonian for the Dirac equation
- Harmonic oscillator ground state from annihilation operator
- Helicity and chirality are equal for massless fermions
- Helicity of one-particle Dirac states
- Helicity operator in the Dirac equation
- Helicity operator in the Dirac equation (Lahiri & Pal)
- Helicity projection operator in the Dirac equation
- Helicity projection operator: Properties and commutators
- Hermitian Lagrangian for the Dirac field
- How can a field and its conjugate be independent?
- Hubbard model of a solid
- Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation
- Interactions of fields - basics
- Internal symmetry of the vacuum
- Klein-Gordon equation
- Klein-gordon equation - derivation and continuity equations
- Klein-Gordon equation for fields; derivation from the Lagrangian
- Klein-Gordon equation from Lagrangian
- Klein-Gordon equation from the Heisenberg picture
- Klein-Gordon equation with anticommutators
- Klein-gordon equation - charged particles
- Klein-Gordon equation: commutators
- Klein-Gordon equation: continuous solutions
- Klein-Gordon equation from harmonic oscillator: Hamiltonian, creation and annihilation operators
- Klein-Gordon solutions from harmonic oscillator
- Klein-gordon equation - nonrelativistic limit
- Klein-Gordon equation: orthonormality of solutions
- Klein-Gordon equation: plane wave solutions
- Klein-Gordon equation: probability density and current
- Klein-Gordon equation in the Feshbach-Villars representation
- Klein-Gordon equation in Feshbach-Villars form - Operator transformations and solutions
- Klein-Gordon equation in Schrödinger form
- Klein-Gordon equation - invariance under electromagnetic gauge transformations
- Klein-Gordon equation in Schrödinger form - Lagrangian, energy-momentum tensor
- Klein-Gordon equation with Coulomb potential
- Klein-Gordon equation with Coulomb potential - charged sphere
- Klein-Gordon equation with Coulomb potential - Hypergeometric functions and numerical solutions
- Klein-Gordon equation - interaction with electromagnetic field
- Klein-Gordon equation with scalar 1/r potential
- Klein-Gordon equation with exponential potential
- Klein-Gordon equation with finite square well
- Klein-Gordon equation with finite square well - numerical solution
- Klein-Gordon Feynman propagator
- Klein-Gordon field in the Heisenberg picture; time dependence
- Klein-Gordon field in position space
- Klein-Gordon Green's function as a Fourier transform
- Lagrangian example: infinite polynomial in the scalar field
- Lagrangian for gaussian integral
- Lagrangian for a relativistic free particle
- Lagrangian for inhomogeneous Maxwell's equations
- Lagrangian for the Dirac field
- Lagrangian for the Schrödinger equation
- Lagrangian to equation of motion: Three examples
- Lagrangians and the principle of least action
- Lagrangians for elastic media
- Linear chain of oscillators - Classical treatment, equations of motion
- Linear chain of oscillators - Classical treatment, Hamiltonian
- Linear chain of oscillators - Quantum treatment
- Linear chain of oscillators - External force, unitary operator
- Linear chain of oscillators - External force, ground state
- Local gauge invariance leading to quantum electrodynamics
- Lorentz group
- Lorentz invariance in Klein-Gordon momentum states
- Lorentz transformation as product of a pure boost and pure rotation
- Lorentz transformation for infinitesimal relative velocity
- Lorentz transformations and the special linear group SL(2,C)
- Lorentz transformations as 2x2 matrices
- Lorentz transformations as rotations
- Lorentz transformations of relativistic states
- Magnetic resonance in the interaction picture
- Massive electromagnetism: Hamiltonian density
- Massive electromagnetism: Polarization vectors
- Massive electromagnetism: Projection operators
- Maximum space-time path for free particle
- Maxwell's equations for free fields are invariant under parity
- Maxwell's equations from the electromagnetic field tensor
- Maxwell's equations using the electromagnetic field tensor
- Momentum & Energy for a free particle in an electromagnetic field
- Momentum of a free scalar Klein-Gordon field
- Momentum of particles in a Dirac field
- Momentum space amplitudes for phi-four theory
- Muon decay: effect of electron mass
- Muon decay - Feynman amplitude
- Natural units
- Natural units (Lahiri & Pal)
- Natural units: the muon lifetime
- Neutral Klein-Gordon field - Fourier expansion
- Neutral Klein-Gordon field - Lagrangian and hamiltonian
- Neutral pion decays into 2 photons but not 3
- Noether current for system of many scalar fields
- Noether's theorem
- Noether's theorem and conservation laws
- Noether's theorem and conservation of angular momentum
- Noether's theorem and conservation of energy and momentum
- Noether's theorem and Lorentz transformations
- Noether's theorem in classical field theory
- Noether's theorem in classical mechanics
- Noether's theorem - internal symmetry and scaled spacetime
- Noether's theorem - internal symmetry of complex scalar field
- Noether's theorem - traceless stress-energy tensor
- Nonrelativistic complex scalar field: commutator of number with phase
- Nonrelativistic complex scalar field: Euler-Lagrange equations
- Nonrelativistic complex scalar field: Noether current
- Nonrelativistic field theory - Fock space to position space
- Nonrelativistic field theory for fermions
- Nonrelativistic field theory - Fourier expansion
- Nonrelativistic field theory - number, creation and annihilation operators
- Nonrelativistic field theory - Schrödinger equation
- Normal ordering
- Normalizing boson and fermion states
- Notation for Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
- Number operator
- Occupation number representation; delta function as a series
- One-dimensional field (displacement of a string)
- Operator formalism and Fock space
- Parity
- Parity and time reversal as Lorentz transformations
- Parity transformation for massless fermions
- Parity transformation for vector and axial vector fields
- Parity transformation of creation and annihilation operators
- Parity transformation of single particle and antiparticle states
- Path integrals in quantum mechanics
- Pauli-Lubansky vector and spin in the Dirac equation
- Perturbation expansion for functional integral - motivation
- Photon field commutators
- Photon field: Coulomb propagator
- Photon field: Fourier decomposition and polarization vectors
- Photon field momentum
- Poincaré group transformations
- Poisson brackets and Hamilton's equations of motion
- Poisson brackets, commutators and Jacobi identity
- Poisson brackets in classical field theory
- Probability density in a Klein-Gordon field
- Propagator for free massive vector field
- Propagator for free particle in momentum space
- Propagator for the Dirac field
- Propagator for the Dirac field as a time-ordered product
- Propagator for the Proca Lagrangian
- Propagators for a couple of discretized systems
- Proton-electron scattering
- Quantum electrodynamics: no first-order processes are possible
- Quantum electrodynamics: scattering by a heavy nucleus
- Quantum electrodynamics: second order processes
- Quantum field theory representation of non-relativistic quantum mechanics
- Real Klein-Gordon fields
- Real scalar field - commutators
- Real scalar field - fourier decomposition
- Relativistic invariant integration measure
- Response function for forced harmonic oscillator
- Rotation about an arbitrary axis in 3-D
- S-matrix
- Rotation operator for spinors
- S-matrix elements in the Yukawa interaction
- S matrix in Coleman's model 2
- Scalar field theory with source field
- Scalar-scalar scattering in the Yukawa interaction
- Scalars, pseudoscalars, vectors & pseudovectors
- Scattering and the S-matrix
- Scattering cross-section applied to boson decay
- Schrödinger equation: Lagrange density & Energy-momentum tensor
- Schrödinger, Heisenberg and interaction pictures
- Second quantizing a single-particle operator
- Second quantizing operators - examples
- Second quantizing the tight-binding hamiltonian
- Second quantizing the tight-binding hamiltonian
- Simple harmonic oscillator propagator
- Single-particle density matrix
- Spin of the photon
- Spin projection operators in the Dirac equation
- Spin projection operators in the Dirac equation for a particle at rest
- Steepest descent and the classical limit of quantum mechanics
- Stress-energy tensor from Noether's theorem
- Stress-energy tensor: 3 examples
- Stress-energy tensor and angular momentum for Dirac field
- Symmetry breaking in a gauge theory
- Temperature dependence of pressure in phi-4 theory
- Thermal average of a harmonic oscillator
- Three-component field: Number operator
- Time-dependent Lagrangian
- Time evolution operator
- Time evolution of creation and annihilaton operators
- Time evolution of spin in a magnetic field
- Time reversal in fermion interactions
- Time reversal
- Time reversal in the Dirac equation
- Transformations of scalar and vector fields
- Translation and rotation invariance
- Transition amplitude for forced harmonic oscillator
- Unitary transformations and the Heisenberg picture
- Vacuum energy in the free Klein-Gordon field
- Violation of causality in old quantum theory
- Wick diagrams
- Wick rotation of the Schrödinger equation
- Wick's theorem
- Wick's theorem - examples
- Wick's theorem and path integrals
- Wick's theorem for 2 fields
- Wick's theorem - general case
- Wick's theorem - no equal time contractions
- Yukawa's psi-psi-phi theory