Physics 215C, QFT, Spring 2022: Lecture Notes and Handouts

Lecture Notes
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from lecture 01 lecture 01 recording Goals; Anomalies
from lecture 02 lecture 02 recording Anomalies; emergence of the Dirac equation in 1+1d
from lecture 03 lecture 03 recording More anomalies
from lecture 04 lecture 04 recording Effective field theory of gravity and of particle physics
from lecture 05 lecture 05 recording Effective field theory of superconductors and superfluids
from lecture 06 lecture 06 recording Effective field theory of metal
from lecture 07 lecture 07 recording Effective field theory of metal, continued
from lecture 08 lecture 08 recording Coherent state path integrals for bosons and fermions
from lecture 09 lecture 09 recording Path integrals (and sums) for spins; geometric quantization
from lecture 10 lecture 10 recording Coherent state parth integrals for spins
from lecture 11 lecture 11 recording Topological terms from integrating out fermions; pions
from lecture 12 lecture 12 recording More on pions
from lecture 13 lecture 13 recording Nucleons as solitons; Field theory of spin systems
from lecture 14 lecture 14 recording Field theory of the Neel phase
from lecture 15 lecture 15 recording Large N
from lecture 16 lecture 16 recording Transverse-field Ising model
from lecture 17 lecture 17 recording Field theory of the transverse-field Ising model
from lecture 18 lecture 18 recording Superfluid-insulator transition and T-duality
from lecture 19 lecture 19 recording Bosonization
from lecture 20 lecture 20 recording Holographic duality
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