QUANTUM FIELD THEORY

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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

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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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