PHYS 583 Spring 2025
PHYS 583 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Schedule
The table below shows the topics we will cover in the course. Exact lecture dates for the topics may still shift, though.
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The reading assignments are strongly recommended accompanying reading to the lectures, they are from Peskin and Schroder (PS) and Weinberg I, II (W1,W2).
Lecture notes are available for download after each lecture . They are provided as a help in looking back what was covered, not to replace reading, or taking your own notes during lecture. They are my own notes for holding lecture, so I cannot give any guarantee for legibility, and they may contain mistakes.
| Week | Date | L. Topics | Reading | Homework |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1/21 | Class cancelled | ||
| 1/23 | QED review | PS 3-5, | ||
| 2 | 1/28 | QED review (cont) | PS 3-5, | |
| 1/30 | QED, S-matrix, | PS 6-7, | ||
| 3 | 2/4 | QED non-perturbative constraints | PS 6-7 | |
| 2/6 | QED Ward Identity | PS 6-7 | ||
| 4 | 2/11 | QED at one loop, vacuum pol | PS 6-10 | HW1 (due Wed Feb 26), solutions |
| 2/13 | QED at one loop, fermion self energy | PS 6-10 | ||
| 5 | 2/18 | Renormalization of QED | ||
| 2/20 | Perturbative renormalization | |||
| 6 | 2/25 | Effective action | ||
| 2/27 | Effective action | |||
| 7 | 3/4 | Renormalization group | ||
| 3/6 | Renormalization group | |||
| 8 | 3/11 | Operator renormalization | HW2 (NOW: due Mon March 31), solutions | |
| 3/13 | Wilsonian renormalization | |||
| Spring break: 3/15 - 3/23 | ||||
| 9 | 3/25 | RG fixed points, phase transitions, criticality | topics-list (selection due March 27) | |
| 3/27 | NLSM | |||
| 10 | 4/1 | Non-Abelian gauge theories, quantization | ||
| 4/3 | Non-Abelian gauge theories, renormalization | |||
| 11 | 4/8 | QCD beta function | ||
| 4/10 | Anomalies | |||
| 12 | 4/15 | Anomalies | ||
| 4/17 | Anomalies | |||
| 13 | 4/22 | Instantons and QCD theta vacua | ||
| 4/24 | Symmetry breaking | |||
| 14 | 4/29 | Goldstones theorem | ||
| 5/1 | Higgs mechanism | |||
| 15 | 5/6 | More Higgs? | ||
| 5/8 | Reading day | |||
| ?? | FINAL PROJECTS - TBA | |||