Phys 232B: Quantum Field Theory II

Spring 2024

List of Reading Assignments

Here is our list of Reading Assignments for the 232B course this year. Each student who is officially registered for the course (or those additional ones who have the explicit permission from me) will select one of the available papers. You will sign up for your selected paper by email to me, and I will assign the papers on the first-come, first-served basis, confirming hopefully by an immediate return email whether you have been assigned to your chosen paper. The sign-up procedure will begin on Tuesday, April 2, at 12noon PDT, exactly. Please do not send me your selections by email before this "end-of-moratorium" time, in the interest of fairness I will have to ignore all premature requests.

Once your Reading Assignment has been confirmed by me, you will read the paper, eventually type a 2-page summary which you will email to me as a pdf file no later than one day before your presentation, and then present the main ideas of the paper in the Discussion Session presentation during the indicated week. Each student will make a 20 minute presentation (with laptop and a projector, in our regularly scheduled Discussion Session, in our usual room 402 Physics South), plus 5 minutes for questions.

Our presentations will start in the second week after Spring break, in our usual time and location reserved for our Discussion Sessions.

Thu, April 11, 3:40-4:55pm:
[1] S. Coleman, Quantum sine-Gordon Equation as the Massive Thirring Model, Phys. Rev. D11 (1975) 2088.
[2] F.D.M. Haldane, Luttinger's Theorem and Bosonization of the Fermi Surface, arXiv:cond-mat/0505529.
[5] M.A. Metlitski and A. Vishwanath, Particle-Vortex Duality of 2d Dirac Fermion from Electric-Magnetic Duality of 3d Topological Insulators, arXiv:1505.05142.

Thu, April 18, 3:40-4:55pm:
[4] Y.-A. Chen, A. Kapustin and D. Radicevic, Exact Bosonization in Two Spatial Dimensions and a New Class of Lattice Gauge Theories, arXiv:1711.00515. [Albert Liu]
[3] A. Kapustin and R. Thorngren, Fermionic SPT Phases in Higher Dimensions and Bosonization, arXiv:1701.08264. [Ahmed Abdalla]
[6] N. Seiberg, T. Senthil, C. Wang and E. Witten, A Duality Web in 2+1 Dimensions and Condensed Matter Physics, Ann. Phys. 374 (2016) 395, arXiv:1606.01989. [Vi Hong]

Thu, April 25, 3:40-4:55pm:
[7] K. Costello, Renormalization and the Batalin-Vilkovisky Formalism, arXiv:0706.1533. [Hanse Kim]
[8] F. Cachazo, P. Svrcek and E.Witten, MHV Vertices and Tree Amplitudes in Gauge Theory, JHEP 0409 (2004) 006, arXiv:hep-th/0403047. [Abel Shiferaw]
[9] R. Britto, F. Cachazo, B. Feng and E. Witten, Direct Proof of Tree-Level Recursion Relation in Yang-Mills Theory, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 (2005) 181602, arXiv:hep-th/0501152. [Hong Joo Ryoo]

Thu, May 2, 3:40-4:55pm:
[10] E. Witten, Perturbative Gauge Theory as a String Theory in Twistor Space, Commun. Math. Phys. 252 (2004) 189, arXiv:hep-th/0312171. [Spencer Tamagni]
[14] S. Carroll, S. Leichenauer and J. Pollack, A Consistent Effective Theory of Long-Wavelength Cosmological Perturbations, arXiv:1310.2920. [Liuhang Ye]
[12] W. Goldberger and I. Rothstein, An Effective Field Theory of Gravity for Extended Objects, arXiv:hep-th/0409156. [Chang-Han Chen]

Thu, May 9, 3:40-4:55pm:
[13] S. Weinberg, Effective Field Theory for Inflation, arXiv:0804.4291. [Juan Castro]
[11] R.C. Brower, J. Polchinski, M.J. Strassler and C.-I Tan, The Pomeron and Gauge/String Duality, arXiv:hep-th/0603115. [Elisa Tabor]
[15] J.J.M. Carrasco, M.P. Hertzberg and L. Senatore, The Effective Field Theory of Cosmological Large Scale Structures, arXiv:1206.2926. [Luis Bariuan]

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