QFT review
An American Physics Student in England has written a nice review of books and lecture notes on Quantum Field Theory for beginners.
I’ve been patiently(*) studying Zee’s book for some time now (it’s been a while since I last opened a page of it, though). Sigh. It seems I am an eternal beginner… But that is all right: the important thing is keep moving (forward). I have so many interests that distract me. But I hope this year I can find more discipline in me — and hence, more time for so many interesting books out there.
(*) That means: making all exercises and thinking about them… Yet, I don’t believe I’ll get Peskin and Schroeder this year yet, although I’d like to.
Ref.: [Zee]
Edited: BTW, it seems I cannot get some factors of right. For instance, I get it in the denominator instead of the nominator in the derivations of page 11; I get a
in equation (20) on page 15, and etc etc. Not important, but I get annoyed not to know where my mistakes are…
January 20, 2007 at 11:26 pm
Ah! Factors of (2pi) on page 11… I think you might be happy to have Zee’s errata handy: http://www.itp.ucsb.edu/~zee/nuts.html
Best wishes,
Flip
January 21, 2007 at 6:36 pm
Hi Flip,
Thanks, that will be useful!
Best,
Christine
March 2, 2007 at 7:14 pm
Ha. I just looked at page 11, worked out the integral by completing the square, and came back to the comments to tell you you were right… but I see I should have read the comments first!
Oh, and nice new blog. Shiny.
As long as I’m posting, let me try some TeX:
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Since you have TeX, is there some way to let people preview comments before posting them? Lets people (like me) clean up there own messes sometimes.
March 3, 2007 at 10:10 am
Hi Garrett,
Thanks!
I still have to figure out how to implement TeX for the comments. For now, it’s not working…
Best,
Christine