Academic Year 2017/2018
- Docente: Fiorenzo Bastianelli
- Credits: 6
- SSD: FIS/02
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Physics (cod. 8025)
Learning outcomes
The student is introduced to relativistic quantum mechanics, and exposed to the relativistic wave equations of Klein-Gordon, Dirac and Proca-Maxwell. He is also exposed to the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics.
Course contents
Review of special relativity and classical mechanics
Quantum mechanics and path integrals
Mechanics of relativistic particles and quantization
Klein-Gordon equation
Dirac equation
Proca-Maxwell equation
Readings/Bibliography
Lecture notes.
S. Weinberg, The Quantum Theory of Fields, Volume 1:
Foundations.
C. Itzykson and J.B. Zuber, Quantum Field
Theory.
Teaching methods
Lectures on blackboard
Assessment methods
Oral exam
Office hours
See the website of Fiorenzo Bastianelli