Imagine learning quantum field theory (QFT) personally from an expert teacher and researcher! Vilnius University professor Thomas Gajdosik gave such a specialized 5 hour overview of the key ideas to John Harland of Palomar College, who was visiting me in Lithuania. I am Andrius Kulikauskas, host of Math 4 Wisdom. John leads our Math 4 Wisdom Physics Study Group.
Thomas starts by contrasting quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. He discusses what are quantum fields?
A quantum field is the source for one or more particles. Particles are excitations of the field. The field describes how creation and annihilation operators act on a vacuum, creating and annhiliating particles. The vacuum state is not much defined but is the same vacuum for all observers with the same symmetries. The vacuum symmetries are the Lorentz symmetries. Field equations are tools to understand how particle moves from one interaction to another.
In a previous episode, John and I expressed our motivations, why study quantum field theory?
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