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The 96 pages that link to Quantum field theory, each with the reason it gives.

• Conformal field theoryNarrower topic: Conformal field theory is a symmetry-restricted class within the broader family of quantum field theories.

• Freeman DysonNarrower topic: Dyson’s work helped establish the modern framework in which his electrodynamics results operate.

• Matter (physics)Related: It provides the modern account of how matter particles arise and interact.

• Sin-Itiro TomonagaNarrower topic: Tomonaga’s work belongs to this broader framework.

• Fundamental interactionNarrower topic: It provides the shared language for the electromagnetic, strong, and weak interactions.

• John Archibald WheelerRelated: Wheeler’s early work with Feynman explored ways to formulate electrodynamics within this framework.

• Lorentz covarianceNarrower topic: Lorentz covariance is a central symmetry requirement for relativistic quantum field theories.

• Vacuum energyNarrower topic: Vacuum energy is defined through the ground states of these fields.

• Feynman rulesNarrower topic: Feynman rules are calculational prescriptions derived from its dynamics.

• Unruh effectNarrower topic: The effect arises from how observers define excitations of quantum fields.

• Virtual particleNarrower topic: Virtual particles belong to its perturbative descriptions of interactions.

• Yoichiro NambuNarrower topic: Nambu formulated symmetry breaking and quark dynamics within this framework.

• Edward WittenNarrower topic: It is the broader theoretical language behind much of Witten’s work.

• Pascual JordanNarrower topic: Jordan’s work with Born and Heisenberg helped establish its early mathematical foundations.

• Poincaré groupNarrower topic: Poincaré symmetry constrains relativistic field equations and particle interactions.

• Superstring theoryNarrower topic: String theory seeks a quantum framework that reproduces familiar field theories at low energies.

• Yang–Mills existence and mass gapNarrower topic: The existence claim concerns a quantum field theory, not merely classical equations.

• Gerard ’t HooftNarrower topic: ’t Hooft’s key results made interacting quantum field theories mathematically manageable.

• QuantizationNarrower topic: Field quantization is the basis of the modern theory of elementary particles.

• Theory of everythingNarrower topic: The Standard Model is built in this language, which must also accommodate gravity.

• Dirac seaCompared with: It describes antiparticles as field excitations rather than vacancies in a material sea.

• Massless particleRelated: In this framework, massless particles arise as excitations of fields with zero mass parameters.

• Modern physicsBroader topic: It underlies modern accounts of elementary particles and their interactions.

• Willis LambNarrower topic: The Lamb shift became a landmark empirical success for quantum field theory.

• History of quantum mechanicsNarrower topic: It became the broader language for particle physics beyond nonrelativistic quantum mechanics.

• Interpretations of quantum mechanicsNarrower topic: Interpretive questions persist when quantum theory is extended to relativistic fields.

• Michio KakuNarrower topic: Kaku’s technical work extends field-theoretic methods to interacting strings.

• Quantum foamNarrower topic: Its fluctuating fields provide a familiar quantum precedent, though gravity is not fully incorporated.

• Subatomic particleNarrower topic: It supplies the main theoretical language for describing elementary particles and their interactions.

• Atomic systemNarrower topic: It extends particle-based atomic descriptions to creation and annihilation processes.

• Classical unified field theoriesCompared with: It replaces the purely classical starting point of these unification programs.

• Field and string theory models and techniquesNarrower topic: It is the central framework whose models and techniques this page surveys.

• Heaviside–Lorentz unitsNarrower topic: Its relativistic notation often sets electromagnetic constants to one and uses rationalized units.

• Hypothetical particleNarrower topic: Most modern particle proposals are formulated as fields and their excitations.

• Hypothetical particle physics modelsNarrower topic: Most particle extensions are formulated as quantum field theories.

• List of particlesNarrower topic: It explains how elementary entries are created, annihilated, and coupled.

• Martinus J. G. VeltmanNarrower topic: Its mathematical problems formed the background to Veltman’s research on gauge interactions.

• Mathematical formulation of quantum mechanicsNarrower topic: It extends quantum mathematics to systems with variable particle number and fields.

• Mathematical formulation of the Standard ModelNarrower topic: The Standard Model is a specific quantum field theory.

• QCD matterNarrower topic: QCD is a quantum field theory, so its matter is described through fields and excitations.

• QuantumNarrower topic: It treats particles as discrete field excitations, extending the quantum idea beyond bound systems.

• Quantum vacuum stateNarrower topic: The vacuum state is defined separately for each quantum field in this framework.

• Relativistic quantum mechanicsCompared with: It resolves limitations of fixed-particle relativistic quantum mechanics when particle numbers can change.

• RelativityCompared with: It incorporates special relativity, but not a complete quantum theory of gravity.

• Schwinger's quantum action principleNarrower topic: The principle is widely applied to derive field-theoretic equations and identities.

• Series expansionRelated: Perturbative predictions are commonly organized as expansions in coupling constants.