8.323 | Spring 2023 | Graduate

Relativistic Quantum Field Theory I

Lecture 3: Why Quantum Field Theory

Inadequacy of relativistic quantum mechanics, unification of quantum mechanics with special relativity requires quantum field theory, field theory as a continuum description of discrete systems, review of quantization of harmonic oscillator in the Heisenberg picture

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