{"product_id":"quantum-field-theory-by-academician-prof-kazuhiko-nishijima-a-classic-in-theoretical-physics-9789402421897","title":"Quantum Field Theory: By Academician Prof. Kazuhiko Nishijima - A Classic in Theoretical Physics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is a translation of the 8th edition of Prof. Kazuhiko Nishijima’s classical textbook on quantum field theory. It is based on the lectures the Author gave to students and researchers with diverse interests over several years in Japan. The book includes both the historical development of QFT and its practical use in theoretical and experimental particle physics, presented in a pedagogical and transparent way and, in several parts, in a unique and original manner. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Author, Academician Nishijima, is the inventor (independently from Murray Gell-Mann) of the third (besides the electric charge and isospin) quantum number in particle physics: strangeness. He is also most known for his works on several other theories describing particles such as electron and muon neutrinos, and his work on the so-called Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe present English translation from its 8\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e Japanese edition has been initiated and taken care of by the editors Prof. M. Chaichian and Dr. A. Tureanu from the University of Helsinki, who were close collaborators of Prof. Nishijima. Dr. Yuki Sato, a researcher in particle physics at the University of Nagoya, most kindly accepted to undertake the heavy task of translation. The translation of the book can be regarded as a tribute to Prof. Nishijima's memory, for his fundamental contributions to particle physics and quantum field theory.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe book presents with utmost clarity and originality the most important topics and applications of QFT which by now constitute the established core of the theory. It is intended for a wide circle of graduate and post-graduate students, as well as researchers in theoretical and particle physics. In addition, the book can be a useful source as a basic material or supplementary literature for lecturers giving a course on quantum field theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Elementary Particle Theory and Field Theory\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e1.1 Classification of Interactions and Yukawa’s Theory \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e1.2 Muon as the First Member of the Second Generation \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e1.3 Quantum Electrodynamics \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e1.4 Road from Pions to Hadrons \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e1.5 Strange Particles as Members of the Second Generation \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e1.6 Non-conservation of Parity \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e1.7 Neutrino in the Second Generation \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e1.8 Democracy and Aristocratism of Hadrons—Quark Model \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e2 Canonical Formalism and Quantum Mechanics \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e2.1 Schr¨odinger’s Picture and Heisenberg’s Picture\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e2.2 Hamilton’s Principle \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e2.3 Equivalence between Canonical Equation and Lagrange’s Equation \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e2.4 Equal-Time Canonical Commutation Relations \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e3 Quantisation of Free Fields \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e3.1 Field Theory Based on Canonical Formalism \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e3.2 Relativistic Generalisation of Canonical Equation \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e3.3 Quantisation of Real Scalar Field \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e3.4 Quantisation of Complex Scalar Field \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e3.5 Dirac’s Equation \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e3.6 Relativistic Invertibilities of Dirac’s Wave Function \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e3.7 Solutions of Free Dirac’s Equation \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e3.8 Quantisation of the Dirac Field \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e3.9 Charge Conjugation \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e3.10 Quantisation of Complex Vector Field \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e4 Invariant Functions and Quantisation of Free Fields \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e4.1 Unequal-time Commutation Relations of Real Scalar Field \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e4.2 Various Sorts of Invariant Functions \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e4.3 Unequal-time Commutation Relations of Free Fields \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e4.4 Generality of Quantisation of Free Fields \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e5 Indefinite Metric and Electromagnetic Field \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e5.1 Indefinite Metric \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e5.2 Generalised Eigenstates \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e5.3 Free Electromagnetic Field—Fermi’s Gauge \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e5.4 Lorentz Condition and Physical State Space \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e5.5 Free Electromagnetic Field—Generalisation of Gauge Choices \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e6 Quantisation of Interacting Systems\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e6.1 Tomonaga-Schwinger Equation\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e6.2 Retarded Product Expansion of Heisenberg’s Operators\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e6.3 Yang-Feldman Expansion of Heisenberg’s Operators\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e6.4 Examples of Interactions \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e7 Symmetries and Conservation Laws\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e7.1 Noether’s Theorem for Point-Particle Systems\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e7.2 Noether’s Theorem in Field Theory\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e7.3 Examples of Noether’s Theorem\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e7.4 Poincar´e Invariance\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e7.5 Representations of Lorentz Group\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e7.6 Spin of a Massless Particle \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e7.7 Pauli-G¨ursey Group\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e8 S-Matrix \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e8.1 Definition of S-Matrix\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e8.2 Dyson’s Formula for S-Matrix \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e8.3 Wick’s Theorem \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e8.4 Feynman Diagrams\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e8.5 Examples of S-Matrix Elements\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e8.6 Furry’s Theorem\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e8.7 Two-Photon Decays of Neutral Mesons \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e9 Cross Sections and Decay Widths\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e9.1 Møller’s Formula for Cross Sections and Formula of\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eDecay Widths \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e9.2 Examples of Cross Sections and Decay Widths\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e9.3 Inclusive Reactions\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e9.4 Optical Theorem \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e9.5 Three-Body Decays\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e10 Discrete Symmetries\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e10.1 Symmetries and Unitary Transformations\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e10.2 Parity of Antiparticles\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e10.3 Isospin Parity and G-Conjugation\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e10.4 Anti-unitary Transformations \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e10.5 CPT Theorem \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e11 Green’s Functions \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e11.1 Gell-Mann-Low Relation\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e11.2 Green’s Functions and Their Generating Functionals \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e11.3 Time-Orderings in Lagrangian Formalism \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e11.4 Matthews’ Theorem\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e11.5An Example of Matthews’ Theorem with Modification \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e11.6 Reduction Formula in the Interaction Picture \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e11.7 Asymptotic Conditions\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e11.8 Unitarity Condition on Green’s Function \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e11.9 Retarded Green’s Functions \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e12 Renormalisation Theory\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e12.1 Lippmann-Schwinger Equation \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e12.2 Renormalised Interaction Picture \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e12.3 Renormalisation of Masses\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e12.4 Renormalisation of Field Operators \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e12.5 Renormalised Propagators\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e12.6 Renormalisation of Vertex Functions\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e12.7 Ward-Takahashi Identity\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e12.8 Integral Representation of Propagator \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e13 Classification of Hadrons and Models\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e13.1 Unitary Groups\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e13.2 SU(3) Group \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e13.3 Universality of p-Meson Decay Interactions \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e13.4 Beta-Decay \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e13.5 Universality of Fermi’s Interaction \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e13.6 Quark Model in Weak Interactions \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e13.7 Quark Model in Strong Interactions \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e13.8 Parton Model \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e14 What is Gauge Theory? \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e14.1Gauge Transformation of Electromagnetic Field \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e14.2 Non-Abelian Gauge Field \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e14.3 Gravitational Field as Gauge Field \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e15 Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e15.1 Nambu-Goldstone Particles\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e15.2 Sigma Model\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e15.3 Mechanism of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e15.4 Higgs Mechanism\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e15.5 Higgs Mechanism under Covariant Gauge Condition\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e15.6 Kibble’s Theorem\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e16 Weinberg-Salam Model\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e16.1 Weinberg-Salam Model \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e16.2 Introducing Fermions\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e16.3 GIM Mechanism \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e16.4 Anomalous Terms and Generation of Fermions\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e16.5 Grand Unified Theory\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e17 Path-Integral Method\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e17.1 Quantisation of a Point-Particle System\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e17.2 Quantisation of Fields\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e18 Quantisation of Gauge Fields via Path Integral Method \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e18.1 Quantisation of Gauge Fields\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e18.2 Quantisation of Electromagnetic \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e18.3 Quantisation of Non-Abelian Gauge Fields\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e18.4 Axial Gauge \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e18.5 Feynman Rule in Axial Gauge\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e19 Becchi-Rouet-Stora Transformations \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e19.1 BRS Transformations \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e19.2 BRS Charge \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e19.3 Another BRS Transformation \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e19.4 BRS Identity and Slavnov-Taylor Identity\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e19.5 Representations of BRS Algebra\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e19.6 Unitarity of S-Matrix \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e19.7 Representations of Extended BRS Algebra \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e19.8 Representations of BRS Transformations for Auxiliary Fields \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e19.9 Representations of BRSNO Algebras \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e20 Renormalisation Group \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e20.1 Renormalisation Group for QED\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e20.2 Approximate Equations for Renormalisation Group \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e20.3 Ovsianikov’s Equation\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e20.4 Linear Equations for Renormalisation Group\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e20.5 Callan-Symanzik Equation\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e20.6Homogeneous Callan-Symanzik Equation\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e20.7 Renormalisation Group for Non-Abelian Gauge Theory \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e20.8 Asymptotic Freedom\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e20.9Gauge Dependence of Green’s Functions \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e21 Theory of Confinement \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e21.1Gauge Independence of Confinement Condition\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e21.2 Sufficient Condition for Colour Confinement\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e21.3 Colour Confinement and Asymptotic Freedom\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e22 Anomalous Terms and Dispersion \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e22.1 Examples of Indefiniteness and Anomalous \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e22.2 Dispersion Theory for Green’s \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e22.3 Subtractions in Dispersion Relation \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e22.4 Heisenberg’s \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e22.5 Subtraction \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e22.6 Anomalous Trace \u003c\/p\u003e  22.7 Triangle-Anomaly Terms","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53518284915031,"sku":"9789402421897","price":83.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/quantum-field-theory-by-academician-prof-kazuhiko-nishijima-a-classic-in-theoretical-physics-9789402421897","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}