<p>Lecture, four hours. Requisites: courses 221A, 221B, 221C. Topics in modern quantum field theory, including solitons, instantons, and other topological defects, large N methods, finite temperature field theory, lattice field theory, effective field theory methods and chiral Lagrangians, conformal field theory, and topological aspects of anomalies. S/U or letter grading.</p>

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Quantum Field Theory

PHYSICS 230D

4 units