Detailed Programme of the Week 10/14/2019 -- 10/18/2019:

-- Canonical Quantization

LECT 12 -- Monday 10/14/2019 - 2h Bonciani 12:00-14:00 (Majorana)

Canonical Quantization. Conjugated momenta, Hamiltonian density, probability density. Change of perspective and quantization. Field in terms of creation and annihilation operators. Heisemberg picture, time-dependent operators, time-independent states. Hamiltonian density in normal modes.

LECT 13 -- Tuesday 10/15/2019 - 2h Bonciani 8:00-10:00 (Majorana)

Harmonic oscillator: a recap. Creation and annihilation operators. Canonical quatization and commutation relations on the fields. Commutation relations for the creation and annihilation operators. Normal ordering. Noether's theorem and conserved quantities. Momentum in terms of creation and annihilation operators. Fock space. One-particle state. Two-particle state and Bose symmetry.

LECT 14 -- Wednesday 10/16/2019 - 2h Bonciani 10:00-12:00 (Rasetti)

Locality and causality in Quantum Field Theory. Charged scalar field. Energy, momentum and charge. Fock space. Particles and anti-particles.

Ricevimento -- Wednesday 10/16/2019 - 12:00-13:00 (uff)

LECT 15 -- Thursday 10/17/2019 - 2h Bonciani 8:00-10:00 (Majorana)

Dirac equation. Properties of alpha and beta matrices. Covariance of Dirac's equation. Unitarity in gamma_0 metric and Dirac conjugated.