Spectral Methods in Quantum Field Theory [electronic resource] by Noah Graham, Markus Quandt, Herbert Weigel.

This concise text introduces techniques from quantum mechanics, especially scattering theory, to compute the effects of an external background on a quantum field in general, and on the properties of the quantum vacuum in particular. This approach can be succesfully used in an increasingly large numb...

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Uniform Title:Lecture Notes in Physics, 1616-6361 ; 777
Main Authors: Graham, Noah (Author)
Quandt, Markus (Author)
Weigel, Herbert (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edition:1st ed. 2009.
Series:Lecture Notes in Physics, 777
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