Nichols radiometer Updated 2025-07-16
Experimental setup to observe radiation pressure in the laboratory.
Solar sail Updated 2026-08-21
Application of radiation pressure.
First live example: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKAROS
Protein complex Updated 2025-07-16
Down quark Updated 2025-07-16
Up quark Updated 2025-07-16
Noisy intermediate-scale quantum era Updated 2025-07-16
Era of quantum computing before we reach physical errors small enough to do perfect quantum error correction as demonstrated by the quantum threshold theorem.
Quantum LC circuit Updated 2025-07-16
TODO are there experiments, or just theoretical?
Hermite polynomials Updated 2025-07-16
Show up in the solution of the quantum harmonic oscillator after separation of variables leading into the time-independent Schrödinger equation, much like solving partial differential equations with the Fourier series.
I.e.: they are both:
- solutions to the time-independent Schrödinger equation for the quantum harmonic oscillator
- a complete basis of that space
Ladder operator Updated 2025-07-16
www.physics.udel.edu/~jim/PHYS424_17F/Class%20Notes/Class_5.pdf by James MacDonald shows it well.
And then we can prove the ladder properties easily.
The commutator appear in the middle of this analysis.
Relativistic Quantum Mechanics by Apoorva D Patel (2014) Updated 2025-07-16
New Revolutions in Particle Physics by Leonard Susskind (2009) Updated 2025-07-16
David Tong's 2009 Quantum Field Theory lectures at the Perimeter Institute Updated 2025-07-16
Lecture notes: Quantum Field Theory lecture notes by David Tong (2007).
By David Tong.
Quantum field theory courses by Tobias Osborne Updated 2025-07-16
An Introduction to QED and QCD by Jeff Forshaw (1997) Updated 2025-07-16
www.hep.man.ac.uk/u/forshaw/NorthWest/QED.pdf web.archive.org/web/20200824083133/http://www.hep.man.ac.uk/u/forshaw/NorthWest/QED.pdf
These seem very direct and not ultra advanced, good read.
Quantum Field Theory lecture notes by David Tong (2007) Updated 2025-07-16
Number of pages circa 2021: 155.
It should also be noted that those notes are still being updated circa 2020 much after original publication. But without Git to track the LaTeX, it is hard to be sure how much. We'll get there one day, one day.
Some quotes self describing the work:
- Perhaps for this reason Ciro Santilli was not able to get as much as he'd out of those notes either. This is not to say that the notes are bad, just not what Ciro needed, much like P&S:
In this course we will not discuss path integral methods, and focus instead on canonical quantization.
A follow up course in the University of Cambridge seems to be the "Advanced QFT course" (AQFT, Quantum field theory II) by David Skinner: www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/dbs26/AQFT.html
Quantum Field Theory book by Mark Srednicki (2006) Updated 2025-07-16
Free to view draft: web.physics.ucsb.edu/~mark/ms-qft-DRAFT.pdf Page presenting it: web.physics.ucsb.edu/~mark/qft.html
Number of pages: 616!
Don't redistribute clause, and final version by Cambridge University Press, alas, so corrections will never be merged back: web.physics.ucsb.edu/~mark/qft.html. But at least he's collecing erratas for the published (and therefore draft) versions there.
The preface states that one of its pedagogical philosophies is to "Illustration of the basic concepts with the simplest examples.", so maybe there is hope after all.
No-Nonsense Quantum Field Theory by Jakob Schwichtenberg (2020) Updated 2025-07-16
This book really tries to recall basic things to ensure that the reader will be able to understand the more advanced ones.
But Ciro Santilli really prefers it when authors error on the side of obvious.
Quantum Field Theory for The Gifted Amateur by Tom Lancaster (2015) Updated 2025-07-16
Student Friendly Quantum Field Theory by Robert D Klauber (2013) Updated 2025-07-16
Quantum field theory in a nutshell by Anthony Zee (2010) Updated 2025-07-16
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