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The initial motivation for the introduction of semiclassical methods in field theory comes from facts observed in the dynamics of hadrons. At energies of a few hundred MeV to a few GeV, they behave as though they had a rich extended or composite nature. For example, primitive bound-quark models give a surprisingly good description of static properties. But the notion of potential is incompatible with relativistic kinematics needed at those energies.
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Neveu, A. (1979). Semiclassical Methods in Field Theory. In: Dittrich, W. (eds) Recent Developments in Particle and Field Theory. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-83630-4_7
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