Quantum Fields on a Lattice (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521599177)

Quantum field theory describes basic physical phenomena over an extremely wide range of length or energy scales. Quantum fields exist in space and time, which can be approximated by a set of lattice points. This book presents a comprehensive and coherent account of the theory of quantum fields on a lattice, an essential technique for the study of the strong and electroweak nuclear interactions. After introductory chapters on scalar fields, gauge fields and fermion fields, the book studies quarks and gluons in QCD and fermions and bosons in the electroweak theory. The last chapter is devoted to numerical simulations algorithms that have been used in recent large-scale numerical simulations. The book will be valuable for graduate students and researchers in theoretical physics, elementary particle physics, and field theory, as well as non-perturbative approximations and numerical simulations of quantum field phenomena.

Author: Istvan Montvay, Istvan Monvay, Gernot M]nster
ISBN-10: 0521599172
ISBN-13: 9780521599177
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/06/1997
Pages: 508
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.04lbs
Size: 9.76h x 7.40w x 1.16d