Monday, 28 March 2016

perturbation theory - In what sense are loop diagrams quantum corrections?


What's so not-quantum about tree-level diagrams?



Answer



The reasons were given here. Essentially, at tree level you recover classical results. Loop corrections are proportional to powers of $\hbar$ and these are quantum terms.


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