8.323 | Spring 2023 | Graduate

Relativistic Quantum Field Theory I

Lecture 26: Quantum Fluctuations and Renormalization

Brief introduction to physical implications of simplest loop diagrams: (i) mass renormalization, vacuum polarization, and charge renormalization; (ii) anomalous magnetic moment, derivation of non-relativistic Pauli equation from Dirac equation

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