How to Use quantum field theory in a Sentence

quantum field theory

noun

• One is that maybe quantum field theory breaks down, full stop.
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 Mar. 2026
• What do physicists think this failure of quantum field theory is telling us?
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 Mar. 2026
• Now many physicists are attempting to do the same with quantum field theory.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2016
• What did Steven Weinberg have to say about quantum field theory?
  — Matt Carlstrom, Quanta Magazine, 22 Dec. 2022
• To solve a quantum field theory is to be able to use the field to predict observations.
  — Charlie Wood, Wired, 4 July 2021
• Now, quantum field theory is not a complete description of nature.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2023
• In quantum field theories, the basic building blocks of the universe are fields, not particles.
  — Luke Caldwell, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
• This is something that bothered the early practitioners of quantum field theory a great amount.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2023
• Each quantum field theory describes physics in a specific number of dimensions.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Wired, 20 June 2021
• In quantum field theory, the universe’s truly elementary entities are fields that fill all space.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2022
• His research has explored particle physics, quantum field theory, and quantum aspects of the early universe and black holes.
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
• These effects occur because of the nature of the Standard Model, which is a type of quantum field theory.
  — Luke Caldwell, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
• 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
• The quantum field theory framework needed some adjustment for Borinsky and Vogtmann to get the right count.
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 16 Feb. 2023
• In fact, in special circumstances, quantum gravity is described by quantum field theory.
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 June 2021
• But some of my colleagues have also studied a beautiful concept called mirror symmetry, in which each space has a mirror image with the same quantum field theory and the same physics.
  — Pamela Weintraub, Discover Magazine, 28 June 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
• The positron’s discovery was a vindication of that theoretical idea, and launched the era of quantum field theory in particle physics.
  — Big Think, 18 June 2024
• 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
• The rule had already been mathematically proved true of quantum field theories with one space and one time dimension, which describe particles moving along lines.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 June 2026
• But quantum field theory, or QFT, is indisputably incomplete.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Wired, 20 June 2021
• 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
• Some theorists have suggested that the quantum field theory method of calculating vacuum energy is off.
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2021
• Quantum mechanics replaced classical mechanics, and then quantum field theory went still further.
  — Big Think, 12 Nov. 2025
• Neither physicists nor mathematicians know exactly what makes a quantum field theory a quantum field theory.
  — 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
• The impetus this time was the self-duality equation, a nonlinear differential equation that arises in quantum field theory.
  — Quanta Magazine, 4 Mar. 2021
• Conformal field theory is a type of quantum field theory that has certain special mathematical properties.
  — Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2023
• 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