How to Use quantum field theory in a Sentence

quantum field theory

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• To solve a quantum field theory is to be able to use the field to predict observations.
  — Charlie Wood, Wired, 4 July 2021
• What did Steven Weinberg have to say about quantum field theory?
  — Matt Carlstrom, Quanta Magazine, 22 Dec. 2022
• Now many physicists are attempting to do the same with quantum field theory.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2016
• By now, math and quantum field theory have indisputably met.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 July 2021
• The quantum field theory framework needed some adjustment for Borinsky and Vogtmann to get the right count.
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 16 Feb. 2023
• This is something that bothered the early practitioners of quantum field theory a great amount.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2023
• These are quantum field theory, which governs the universe on the smallest scale, and general relativity, which governs the universe on the largest scale.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2022
• Doreen Fraser, a philosopher of quantum field theory at the University of Waterloo, in Canada, echoes this point.
  — Adam Becker, Scientific American, 22 Nov. 2022
• But in modern quantum field theories, quantum fields are the most basic objects, and particles are just fluctuations in these fields.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 18 Apr. 2023
• In quantum field theory, the universe’s truly elementary entities are fields that fill all space.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2022
• This proved that creating matter from nothing is indeed possible, a theory first proposed by Julian Schwinger, one of the founders of quantum field theory.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 18 Sep. 2022
• Similar thinking about equivalence applies to surfaces around strings — and by extension, the quantum field theories inside of which those surfaces are drawn, Seiberg and his co-authors wrote.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 18 Apr. 2023
• Feynman integrals have plagued particle theorists since the rise of quantum field theory in the mid–20th century.
  — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 30 Nov. 2022
• After taking care of why stones are round, and why there is no pink light, Henry Reich is now explaining the fundamental nature of our everyday world: quantum field theory and the Standard Model.
  — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2012
• Each quantum field theory describes physics in a specific number of dimensions.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Wired, 20 June 2021
• According to quantum field theory, the vacuum is filled with particles leaping in and out of existence in a bubbling froth of quantum activity.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022
• In the late 1920s physicists began to develop a powerful mathematical framework known as quantum field theory that remains the language of particle physics to this day.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2022
• These researchers argue that quantum field theory, the current lingua franca of particle physics, tells far too convoluted a story.
  — Quanta Magazine, 12 Nov. 2020
• On the theoretical side, quantum mechanics was soon superseded by quantum field theory, where the fields are also quantized.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
• This summer, Quanta covered the growing need for a mathematical understanding of quantum field theory, one of the most successful concepts in physics.
  — Quanta Magazine, 23 Dec. 2021
• In fact, in special circumstances, quantum gravity is described by quantum field theory.
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 June 2021
• But quantum field theory, or QFT, is indisputably incomplete.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Wired, 20 June 2021
• But there are certain realms where mathematics gets complicated and counterintuitive — like quantum field theory, or the addition of one child to a family that already has one child.
  — Caitlin Gibson, Washington Post, 3 July 2023
• If the interaction is governed by any of the three forces other than gravity, physicists can in principle calculate the results of these scattering problems using quantum field theory.
  — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 12 Jan. 2022
• Crucially, the quantum field theory of D-branes was strongly coupled, meaning that particles and fields in the theory interacted strongly with one another.
  — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2023
• Over the past few years, the physicist John Preskill and his collaborators have shown how to use quantum computers to efficiently simulate several simple quantum field theories.
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 Oct. 2015
• The impetus this time was the self-duality equation, a nonlinear differential equation that arises in quantum field theory.
  — Quanta Magazine, 4 Mar. 2021
• This reminded me that quantum field theory is probably the single most under-popularized subject in all of fundamental physics.
  — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2011
• Recently, Quanta has explored the collaboration between physics and mathematics on one of the most important ideas in science: quantum field theory.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 July 2021
• Elliott notes that viewing quantum field theory from a mathematical perspective can help glean new information about the structures that are foundational to it.
  — Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2022

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