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Auxiliary field
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Yukawa coupling

Scalar–fermion interaction

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Asymptotic freedom

Property of gauge theories in particle physics

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Dimensional regularization

Method in evaluating divergent integrals

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Mass gap

Energy difference between ground state and lightest excited state(s)

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Superselection

Rule forbidding the coherence of certain states

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Free field

Physical field theory with no forces/interactions

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Effective action

Quantum version of the classical action

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Vacuum expectation value

Type of operator expectation value

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Dirac sea

Theoretical model of the vacuum

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Soler model

Type of 3+1 dimensional quantum field theory

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Crossing (physics)

Property of scattering amplitudes

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Chirality (physics)

Property of particles related to spin

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Majorana equation

Relativistic wave description of fermions

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Background field method

Technique in quantum field theory

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CCR and CAR algebras

Canonical commutation or anticommutation relations

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Casimir effect

Force resulting from the quantisation of a field

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Bound state

Quantum physics terminology

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C-symmetry

Symmetry of physical laws under a charge-conjugation transformation

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No-go theorem

Theorem of physical impossibility

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Magnetic catalysis

Enhancement of dynamical symmetry breaking

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Non-topological soliton

Special class of solitons

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On-shell renormalization scheme

Renormalization scheme in quantum field theory

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Source field

Type of field appearing in the Lagrangian

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Thirring model

Solvable 1+1 dimensional quantum field theory

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Bosonic field

Type of quantum field

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On shell and off shell

Configurations of a system that do or do not satisfy classical equations of motion

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Correlation function (quantum field theory)

Expectation value of time-ordered quantum operators

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Partition function (quantum field theory)

Generating function for quantum correlation functions

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Helicity (particle physics)

Projection of spin along the direction of momentum

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Feynman parametrization

Parametrization used for loop integrals

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Moduli (physics)

Space of vacuum states

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Feynman checkerboard

Fermion path integral approach in 1+1 dimensions

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Fermionic field

Fields giving rise to fermionic particles

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Born–Infeld model

Model of nonlinear electrodynamics

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Zitterbewegung

Particle effect

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Initial and final state radiation
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Dirac adjoint

Dual to the Dirac spinor

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Quantum vacuum state

Quantum state with the lowest possible energy

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Dirac spinor

Mathematical description of fermions

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GW approximation

Approximation in many-body systems

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Bogoliubov transformation

Mathematical operation in quantum optics, general relativity and other areas of physics

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Normal order

Type of operator ordering in quantum field theory

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(−1)F

Term in quantum field theory

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Static forces and virtual-particle exchange

Physical interaction in post-classical physics

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Chern–Simons theory

Three-dimensional topological quantum field theory whose action is the Chern–Simons form

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Källén–Lehmann spectral representation

Expression for two-point correlation functions

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Pauli–Lubanski pseudovector

Operator in quantum field theory

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Toda field theory

Special quantum field theory

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Thirring–Wess model

Solvable 1+1 dimensional quantum field theory

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