Phys 232B: Quantum Field Theory II
Spring 2025
List of Reading Assignments
Here is our list of Reading Assignments for the 232B course this year. The students who are registered for the course, and the students who requested having a reading essignment, 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 Friday, March 21, 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: 402 Physics South, on Thursdays.
Thu, April 10, 3:40-4:30pm:
[1] S. Coleman, Quantum sine-Gordon Equation as the Massive Thirring Model, Phys. Rev. D11 (1975) 2088. [Vlad Temkin]
[2]
F.D.M. Haldane, Luttinger's Theorem and Bosonization of the Fermi Surface, arXiv:cond-mat/0505529. [Aswath Suryanarayanan]
Thu, April 17, 3:40-4:30pm:
[3] A. Kapustin and R. Thorngren, Fermionic SPT Phases in Higher Dimensions and Bosonization, arXiv:1701.08264. [Avik Laha]
[4] 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. [Jiechao Feng]
Thu, April 24, 3:40-4:30pm:
[5] F. Cachazo, P. Svrcek and E.Witten, MHV Vertices and Tree Amplitudes in Gauge Theory, JHEP 0409 (2004) 006, arXiv:hep-th/0403047. [Viola Zhao]
[6] 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. [Michelle Dong]
Thu, May 1, 3:40-4:30pm:
[7] S. Carroll, S. Leichenauer and J. Pollack, A Consistent Effective Theory of Long-Wavelength Cosmological Perturbations, arXiv:1310.2920. [Zenan Zhang]
[8] W. Goldberger and I. Rothstein, An Effective Field Theory of Gravity for Extended Objects, arXiv:hep-th/0409156. [Garima Prabhakar]
Thu, May 8, 3:40-4:30pm:
[9] S. Weinberg, Effective Field Theory for Inflation, arXiv:0804.4291. [Eve Schoen]
[11] E. Witten, Perturbative
Gauge Theory as a String Theory in Twistor Space, Commun. Math. Phys.
252 (2004) 189, arXiv:hep-th/0312171. [Finn Fraser Grathwol]
[10] J.J.M. Carrasco, M.P. Hertzberg and L. Senatore, The Effective Field Theory of Cosmological Large Scale Structures, arXiv:1206.2926.
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