List of quantum field theories
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List of quantum field theories:
- Chern-Simons model
- Chiral modelChiral modelIn nuclear physics, the chiral model is a phenomenological model describing mesons in the chiral limit where the masses of the quarks go to zero . It's a nonlinear sigma model with the principal homogeneous space of the Lie group SU as its target manifold where N is the number of quark flavors...
- Gross-Neveu
- Kondo modelKondo modelThe Kondo model is a model for a quantum impurity coupled to a large reservoir of noninteracting electrons. The quantum impurity is represented by a spin-1/2, which is coupled to a continuous band of noninteracting electrons by an antiferromagnetic exchange coupling, J...
- Lower dimensional quantum field theory
- Minimal modelMinimal model*In theoretical physics, the term minimal model usually refers to a special class of conformal field theories that generalize the Ising model, or to some closely related representations of the Virasoro algebra...
- Nambu-Jona-Lasinio
- Noncommutative quantum field theoryNoncommutative quantum field theoryIn mathematical physics, noncommutative quantum field theory is an application of noncommutative mathematics to the spacetime of quantum field theory that is an outgrowth of noncommutative geometry and index theory in which the coordinate functions are noncommutative...
- Nonlinear sigma model
- Phi to the fourth
- Quantum chromodynamicsQuantum chromodynamicsIn theoretical physics, quantum chromodynamics is a theory of the strong interaction , a fundamental force describing the interactions of the quarks and gluons making up hadrons . It is the study of the SU Yang–Mills theory of color-charged fermions...
- Quantum electrodynamicsQuantum electrodynamicsQuantum electrodynamics is the relativistic quantum field theory of electrodynamics. In essence, it describes how light and matter interact and is the first theory where full agreement between quantum mechanics and special relativity is achieved...
- Quantum flavordynamicsQuantum flavordynamicsIn quantum mechanics, Quantum Flavordynamics is a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavored particles through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons . In general it refers to the theory of weak interactions under the standard model...
- Quantum Yang-Mills theory
- Schwinger modelSchwinger modelIn physics, the Schwinger model, named after Julian Schwinger, is the model describing 2D Euclidean quantum electrodynamics with a Dirac fermion. This model exhibits a spontaneous symmetry breaking of the U symmetry due to a chiral condensate due to a pool of instantons. The photon in this model...
- Sine-Gordon
- Standard modelStandard ModelThe Standard Model of particle physics is a theory concerning the electromagnetic, weak, and strong nuclear interactions, which mediate the dynamics of the known subatomic particles. Developed throughout the mid to late 20th century, the current formulation was finalized in the mid 1970s upon...
- String TheoryString theoryString theory is an active research framework in particle physics that attempts to reconcile quantum mechanics and general relativity. It is a contender for a theory of everything , a manner of describing the known fundamental forces and matter in a mathematically complete system...
- Thirring modelThirring modelThe Thirring model is an exactly solvable quantum field theory which describes the self-interactions of a Dirac field in two dimension.-Definition:The Thirring model is given by the Lagrangian density...
- Toda field theoryToda field theoryIn the study of field theory and partial differential equations, a Toda field theory is derived from the following Lagrangian:...
- Topological quantum field theoryTopological quantum field theoryA topological quantum field theory is a quantum field theory which computes topological invariants....
- Wess-Zumino modelWess-Zumino modelIn theoretical physics, the Wess–Zumino model has become the first known example of an interacting four-dimensional quantum field theory with supersymmetry, at least in the Western world...
- Wess-Zumino-Witten modelWess-Zumino-Witten modelIn theoretical physics and mathematics, the Wess–Zumino–Witten model, also called the Wess–Zumino–Novikov–Witten model, is a simple model of conformal field theory whose solutions are realized by affine Kac–Moody algebras...
- Yang-Mills
- Yang-Mills-Higgs model
- Yukawa model