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I had some questions about the equations that David Tong derives in his lecture notes here:
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/qft/three.pdf
He gets defines the time evolution operator according to equations 3.20 and 3.23 as
U(t, t[itex]_{0}[/itex]) = T*exp(-i* [itex]\int[/itex][H[itex]_{I}[/itex](t') * dt']) = 1 - i*[itex]\int[/itex][dt' * H[itex]_{I}[/itex](t')] + ...
According to eq 3.26, in the limit as t approaches +/- infinity, U is the same as the S-matrix:
lim <f|U(t[itex]_{+}[/itex], t[itex]_{-}[/itex])|i> = <f|S|i>
but according to eq3.25, the Hamiltonian for the Yukawa theory is:
H[itex]_{I}[/itex] = g * [itex]\int[/itex][d[itex]^{3}[/itex]x * [itex]\psi^{dagger}[/itex] [itex]\psi[/itex] [itex]\varphi[/itex]]
But according to the series expansion formula for U above, and plugging in the Hamiltonian into it, the series expansion for U should be:
U(t, t[itex]_{O}[/itex]) = 1 - i*[itex]\int[/itex][d[itex]^{4}[/itex]x * g*[itex]\psi^{dagger}[/itex] [itex]\psi[/itex] [itex]\varphi[/itex]] + ...
I see that the leading term in g just has the [itex]\psi^{dagger}[/itex] [itex]\psi[/itex] [itex]\varphi[/itex] in it. But in eq 3.46, he calculates <f| S-1| i>, which is SECOND order in g^2. Now it contains two terms each of [itex]\psi^{dagger}[/itex] [itex]\psi[/itex] [itex]\varphi[/itex]
My question is, when he says 'S-1', does he mean "S without the 1st order term" ? Or do he mean "S without the number '1' "? If the former, that would make sense. But the latter makes no sense at all
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/qft/three.pdf
He gets defines the time evolution operator according to equations 3.20 and 3.23 as
U(t, t[itex]_{0}[/itex]) = T*exp(-i* [itex]\int[/itex][H[itex]_{I}[/itex](t') * dt']) = 1 - i*[itex]\int[/itex][dt' * H[itex]_{I}[/itex](t')] + ...
According to eq 3.26, in the limit as t approaches +/- infinity, U is the same as the S-matrix:
lim <f|U(t[itex]_{+}[/itex], t[itex]_{-}[/itex])|i> = <f|S|i>
but according to eq3.25, the Hamiltonian for the Yukawa theory is:
H[itex]_{I}[/itex] = g * [itex]\int[/itex][d[itex]^{3}[/itex]x * [itex]\psi^{dagger}[/itex] [itex]\psi[/itex] [itex]\varphi[/itex]]
But according to the series expansion formula for U above, and plugging in the Hamiltonian into it, the series expansion for U should be:
U(t, t[itex]_{O}[/itex]) = 1 - i*[itex]\int[/itex][d[itex]^{4}[/itex]x * g*[itex]\psi^{dagger}[/itex] [itex]\psi[/itex] [itex]\varphi[/itex]] + ...
I see that the leading term in g just has the [itex]\psi^{dagger}[/itex] [itex]\psi[/itex] [itex]\varphi[/itex] in it. But in eq 3.46, he calculates <f| S-1| i>, which is SECOND order in g^2. Now it contains two terms each of [itex]\psi^{dagger}[/itex] [itex]\psi[/itex] [itex]\varphi[/itex]
My question is, when he says 'S-1', does he mean "S without the 1st order term" ? Or do he mean "S without the number '1' "? If the former, that would make sense. But the latter makes no sense at all
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