Cristiano Ciuti
Université Paris Diderot

• Research Interests

   Ultrastrong coupling cavity and circuit quantum electrodynamics
   Non-equilibrium quantum fluids
   Quantum devices
   Physics of cavity polaritons (e.g., excitons, intersubband excitations, ...).

  Announcement

from 14.04.2010 – 26.05.2010

4 SWS/5 ECTS

We give an introduction into relativistic quantum field theory, QFT as a low energy description of systems with infinitely many degrees of freedom, we describe interaction and Feynman diagrams in QED using propagator theory, we introduce symmetries and the gauge principle , we discuss spontaneous symmetry breaking for the Higgs mechanism of Yang-Mills fields and in the context of condensed matter physics (super fluidity and superconductivity), we give an introduction into QCD and into the standard model of electroweak interactions.

The aim is to get familiar with the mathematical formalism of relativistic quantum fields, of gauge theories, the modern theories of theoretical physics, in particular in the view of recent developments;