Haifeng Yang added Basic Ideas.tex  over 10 years ago

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\begin{enumerate}   \item What are fields? (diff between theory of field and theory of particles)     \item Why quantum field theory?   \begin{enumerate}   \item Desire (photon and phonon)   \item Marriage of QM and R. (\# of part. can change)   \item Fields maybe more fundemantal.   \item Connection between QFT and classical thermal field theory at $T>0$.   \end{enumerate}     \item How to quantize? discretize, solve N-body, take limit.     \item $\mathbf{x}_i(t) \Longleftrightarrow \phi(\mathbf{x}, t)$     \end{enumerate}