8.323 | Spring 2023 | Graduate

Relativistic Quantum Field Theory I

Lecture 20: Maxwell Theory and its Canonical Quantization

Gauge symmetry, classical Maxwell theory in the Coulomb gauge and Lorentz gauge, canonical quantization of the Maxwell theory in the Coulomb gauge, single-particle states and photons

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