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UNINA9910780252903321 |
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Smit Jan <1943-> |
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Introduction to quantum fields on a lattice : 'a robust mate' / / Jan Smit [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 |
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9780511020780 |
0-511-14814-3 |
0-511-58397-4 |
0-511-02078-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 271 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Cambridge lecture notes in physics ; ; 15 |
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Quantum field theory |
Lattice theory |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-266) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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QED, QCD, and confinement -- Scalar field -- Path-integral and lattice regularization -- Path integral in quantum mechanics -- Regularization by discretization -- Analytic continuation to imaginary time -- Spectrum of the transfer operator -- Latticization of the scalar field -- Transfer operator for the scalar field -- Fourier transformation on the lattice -- Free scalar field -- Particle interpretation -- Back to real time -- O(n) models -- Goldstone bosons -- O(n) models as spin models -- Phase diagram and critical line -- Weak-coupling expansion -- Renormalization -- Renormalization-group beta functions -- Hopping expansion -- Luscher-Weisz solution -- Numerical simulation -- Real-space renormalization group and universality -- Universality at weak coupling -- Triviality and the Standard Model -- Gauge field on the lattice -- QED action -- QCD action -- Lattice gauge field -- Gauge-invariant lattice path integral -- Compact and non-compact Abelian gauge theory -- Hilbert space and transfer operator -- The kinetic-energy operator -- Hamiltonian for continuous time -- Wilson loop and Polyakov line -- U(1) and SU(n) gauge theory -- Potential at weak coupling -- Asymptotic freedom -- Strong-coupling expansion -- Potential at strong coupling -- Confinement versus screening -- |
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Glueballs -- Coulomb phase, confinement phase -- Mechanisms of confinement -- Scaling and asymptotic scaling, numerical results -- Fermions on the lattice -- Naive discretization of the Dirac action -- Species doubling -- Wilson's fermion method. |
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This book provides a concrete introduction to quantum fields on a lattice: a precise and non-perturbative definition of quantum field theory obtained by replacing continuous space-time by a discrete set of points on a lattice. The path integral on the lattice is explained in concrete examples using weak and strong coupling expansions. Fundamental concepts such as 'triviality' of Higgs fields and confinement of quarks and gluons into hadrons are described and illustrated with the results of numerical simulations. The book also provides an introduction to chiral symmetry and chiral gauge theory, as well as quantized non-abelian gauge fields, scaling and universality. Based on the lecture notes of a course given by the author, this book contains many explanatory examples and exercises, and is suitable as a textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses. |
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UNINA9910798250003321 |
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Doing English in Asia : global literature and culture / / edited by Patricia Haseltine and Sheng-mei Ma |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (183 p.) |
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English language - Study and teaching (Higher) - Asia |
English language - Technical English - Study and teaching (Higher) - Asia |
English literature - Study and teaching (Higher) - Asia |
Literature and globalization - Asia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and |
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Contents; Preface; Introduction. Toward a Cosmopolitan Everyman: Cultural Negotiations of English Literature Teachers in East Asia; PART I. LANGUAGE POLITICS ACROSS ASIA; Chapter 1. "Exophony" in the Midst of the Mother Tongue: Resources between Languages; Chapter 2. Unfinished English: Stories from the Other Other; Chapter 3. Using Chopsticks to Read Knife 'n' Fork English: Teaching American Literature in Taiwan; PART II. CULTURE AND LANGUAGE STUDY IN TAIWAN; Chapter 4. Teaching Early British Literature in Southern Taiwan |
Chapter 5. Teaching English Language and Literature in the Asia-Pacific Region: Environmental and Ecocritical ContextsChapter 6. Interacting with "Other" Places in Modern Poetry through Hypermedia; PART III. DRAMA AND ETHOS BEYOND BORDERS; Chapter 7. Shakespeare's Cymbeline in the College English Classroom during the Sunflower Student Movement; Chapter 8. MOOC "Global/Local Shakespeare": New Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare in Taiwan and Beyond; Chapter 9. Modern Renaissance Education in Taiwan's Departments of Foreign Languages; Index; About the Editors and Contributors |
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This edited collection examines the effect of globalization on the curriculum of Asian universities. As knowledge of the English language has increasingly been understood as necessary to excel in international business, a number of Asian universities have replaced the traditional study of English literature and culture with applied English or English for specified purposes. Contributors to this collection tackle the question of how teachers in Asia should balance the need for their students to understand English culture with the pressure to prepare students for employment in this changing envi |
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