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Unit 1: Spin 0 TABLE OF CONTENTS Symmetry groups Canonical quantization The Fock space Causality and propagation Symmetries and conservation laws Symmetry breaking Axioms of relativistic QFT The CPT theorem The Schrodinger equation Finite temperature Statistical mechanics Bose-Einstein condensation Superfluidity REFERENCES Peskin, Chapter 2. Ramond, Chapter I. Weinberg, Chapter 2, Sections 5.1-2. Itzykson and Zuber, Sections 1-1,2, 3-1,4 Fetter and Walecka, Chapters 1,2, Sections 23, 24, 55 Altland and Simons, Sections 2.1, 6.3

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