- Docente: Fiorenzo Bastianelli
- Credits: 6
- SSD: FIS/02
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Physics (cod. 8025)
Learning outcomes
The student acquires notions and methods to describe relativistic particles with spin in first quantization, considering in particular the role played by supersymmetry and by constrained hamiltonian systems.
Course contents
Supersymmetric quantum mechanics.
Grassmann variables.
Path integrals for fermionic systems.
Mechanical models for particles of spin 0, 1/2 and 1, and their
quantization.
BRST quantization.
Heisenberg-Euler effective action.
Readings/Bibliography
Lecture notes.
M. Henneaux and C. Teitelboim, Quantization of Gauge
Systems.
Teaching methods
Lectures on blackboard
Assessment methods
Oral exam
Office hours
See the website of Fiorenzo Bastianelli