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QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does quantum field theory mean?
• QUANTUM FIELD THEORY (noun)
The noun QUANTUM FIELD THEORY has 1 sense:
1. the branch of quantum physics that is concerned with the theory of fields; it was motivated by the question of how an atom radiates light as its electrons jump from excited states
Familiarity information: QUANTUM FIELD THEORY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The branch of quantum physics that is concerned with the theory of fields; it was motivated by the question of how an atom radiates light as its electrons jump from excited states
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("quantum field theory" is a kind of...):
quantum physics (the branch of physics based on quantum theory)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quantum field theory"):
QED; quantum electrodynamics (a relativistic quantum theory of the electromagnetic interactions of photons and electrons and muons)
QCD; quantum chromodynamics (a theory of strong interactions between elementary particles (including the interaction that binds protons and neutrons in the nucleus); it assumes that strongly interacting particles (hadrons) are made of quarks and that gluons bind the quarks together)
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