Books I Use For Research in Theoretical Nuclear Physics
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- Опубликовано: 6 июл 2024
- In this video I go over the books I find myself commonly referencing while doing my research in theoretical nuclear/particle physics.
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10th! So glad you’re feeling better Andrew. ~Love Mom 💕
you must be the best mom ever lol
I still can't comment earlier than you, I tried three times. Shows your love for him! you are an amazing mom!
Andrew is that you ?
Hi mom
Why do you write love mom , like aren't you able to call him or isn't he able to find you or something
Fun fact: I (along with others) helped edit the Schwartz book (QFT and Standard Model) which was converted from a set of lecture notes from a class that Schwartz taught (for which I was a TA at one point). Though I played no role in the writing (I only checked all the equations and gave minor feedback), I always feel proud when people speak highly of the book. I'm glad you enjoyed it Andrew.
That's awesome!
You're here as well the pilani dude who went to IAS.
Physics 253 at Harvard?
@@NeokingTech yes. 253a to be precise.
I love that book. One of the very few sources that speaks about direct path integral representations for the effective action and the S-matrix.
"Writing the textbook is trivial and left as an exercise to the reader"
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I love how he said “if that doesn’t make sense to you...” and then re-explained something that still did not make sense to me.
How most of my professors were when I asked them questions
Schwartz is really good! It's the only QFT book I could find that starts without the expectation that you've seen anything in QFT before.
It ages well too. I find myself always going back to it.
Am I a physics researcher? Absolutely not. Will I still be taking notes on what books he uses? Absolutely
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@@RipudamanRao Yes. Twas a joke m’dude.
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"small stack" books be thicker than a bowl of oatmeal
bruh lemme tell ya as a physics major that you're supposed to hound physics textbooks like hounding fcking support beams lmaoooo
The life of a physicist is 5% magic, 15% latex notes, 15% illegal pdfs of textbooks, 15% bookhoarding and 50% concentrated power of pain(after renormalizing pain to be finite)
@@mikhailmikhailov8781 as an engineering student I 100% agree with that statement
@@mikhailmikhailov8781 the bookhoarding argument is too true. Also for mathematicians. Just bought two textbooks myself lmao
books be thick as tree trunk for grad students and title will be introductory
*me not understanding a single thing he's said at any point in the video*
"Ah yes, these are good books, I should get them"
Same
Hey man just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate you, for sharing your journey in physics. Which inspired me to change my major from aerospace engineering to physics. stay the way you are and keep your stuff up, greetings from germany :)
Thanks a lot!
Note that there's a nice Wikipedia page called Common Integrals In Quantum Field Theory.
I also did a book preview video my books for 2021, last week.
It will be a reading year for sure, giving how we're still staying at home.
3:05 I hope that Papa Flammy will derive these on his improvised session
So glad you feeling better Andrew. Hi from South Africa by the way, I absolutely love your videos, they have been inspiring to me while I have been going through my undergrad in physics as well.
"It's got a nice appendix." Smooth.
Glad you're no longer dying :)
Thanks for the interesting, informative vid even though I probably won't need these books for another 2+ years
Hey man, it's so important to find the books and resources! Great work!
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Good to hear you're feeling better! The textbook videos are fantastic.
So happy you are good man! BTW I have watched a lot of your videos recently. Your channel made me return to theoretical physics. And this video is just extremely helpful
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MY GUY ANDREW! Love seeing your videos pop up in my subscription feed, keep up the awesome work in your research! Please upload more too :))
Finally! I've been looking for some good books for ages. Thanks Andrew and keep that good work up! ^^
Glad your feeling better! Missed the uploads!
Hey hi man, I am studying Physics in college and I really like your videos. Keep up the good work and stay healthy.
Love the videos Andrew!
Great things are headed your way Andrew! Keep it up!
Thanks!
If Physics for Dummies isn't on here, I'm going to be really scared for my promising career as a nuclear physicist
Glad You're Feeling better!
cool stuff! 6:30 would love to see some examples on what you mean by "removing infinities"
*Andrew,* you should invent your own "fundamental transformation" to bypass those obfuscated diagrams and infinities. The _Dotson's duality principle_ would make a nice Nobel acceptance speech.
Know you through your memes video but I don’t know you’re a nuclear physicist too! The books you recommended are really good and I even own the first one! That book is really popular among graduate physics students even here in Japan. Glad to hear that you recovered and take care!
Dr Dotson so glad to have you back
A book I would definitely recommend (Maybe not for research, especially coming from a layman rather than a researcher) is Path Integrals for Pedestrians. They present, among other things, a path integral derivation of Wigner functions along with a dirty little scheme for hopping between a quantum path integral and a classical path integral with geometric quantization. It was very interesting to watch it come together throughout the book.
Andrew good to see you back bro 😀👍👍👍👍
as a math/compsci student, hearing physicists talk about integration (in 4-\eps dimensions? taking \eps=0? WHAT) is the perfect mixture of bewildering and entertaining :D
So you can make a diverging interval converge. Can't wait till I go over that in class lol
When sending me to resources for a final project, the head of my department recommended Kleinert's Particles and Quantum Fields, which, if you had the physical copy, would be the thickest boi of the stack. Definitely a great resource, at least as far as my limited use of it
Concerning renormalization, there are also the following books:
Renormalization, an Introduction, by Salmhofer.
Renormalization Methods, a Guide for Beginners, by McComb.
See also the lecture notes about Renormalization in QFT by Sunil Mukhi.
Sending some love for Schwartz's book! Other very interesting mentions that I personally found, and still find, very useful are Weinberg's books (even if the notation is terrible), Zinn-Justin QFT and Critical Phenomena and, last but not least, Coleman's Aspects of Symmetry which contains various advanced QFT topics presented in a very Coleman way, which is a very good thing
Hey I'm a undergrad student. Mostly I find the terminologies Greek-Latin for me. But I enjoy these videos to the fullest.
you meant to say, geek-latin
Nope. Greek-latin or Latin -greek you may say. "Incomprehensible"
So glad to see you again bro.
Whenever I see a complex-looking maths equation, it just fascinates me to want to learn enough about it to be able to decipher what it means. Like that integral in the video.
Good to know you're better now.
hey i saw my favourite book on the thumbnail! best explanation on spinor field I could find.
so, when will we see a preprint on the arxiv? I'm curious about these D-terms!
oh man i'm glad you're feeling better :D
Every quantum field theory bookshelf is incomplete without "The Great Weinberg series".
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Oh, the insights Weinberg lead us couldn't find anywhere. Why we do this how it gives the results, great.
Hey Andrew, thanks for the great video! Could you please do a video on the method of image charges? It's quite confusing for me :)
Andrew, in my Advanced Statistical Physics course we are using the renormalization to study phase transitions.
It amazes me that a concept so strange is present in two (seemingly) very different areas of physics.
Can you make a video explaining the relationship between renormalization in statistical phyics and in QFT?
They are not so different when one considers that they are about computing expectation values of operators with continuous spectra.
I actually took a course on stat mech by Nigel Goldenfeld lol
I remember learning from a plasma chemistry book by Fridman for my PhD and later find it's the quite established dad of the podcaster Lex.
@@NikolajKuntner that's crazy. Didn't know that
@@vampyricon7026 Ahhhh so jealous! He recently gave a talk at our university on turbulence and it was great.
Hey, Andrew.
I'm about to complete my bachelor's degree in physics, all the "research" (come on, I'm a bachelors student) I've done up until this point has been more data oriented, I didn't need to use or really understand any complex theory. Since the start I've wanted to become a theorist myself, but it's a very tough field requiring a lot of advanced math I haven't mastered. When is a good time to start getting into it, how do I do it? It seems to have such a high barrier of entry. I don't want to keep putting it off for too long and end up writing a phd thesis where I just do a bunch of manual labor to collect data or whatever (I recently attended a presentation about one student's thesis, his work was compiling and extracting a lot of astrophotometric data, he got really favorable comments from the committee). I respect this kind of work a lot but I don't find it exciting one bit.
I think this is a good video topic, have you done one of these in the past?
Hey Andrew! Could you possibly make a video about getting jobs in theoretical physics? I’ve heard it’s a lot harder than experimental, which is somewhat discouraging considering I really want to go into it. Thank so much!
Hey I want to join Ph.D program in Astronomy at NMSU.
I have submitted my application.
I really wanna meet you (if I got admit).
See you in Aug 2021. Hopefully. 😊😊
Best luck buddy 👍 btw where did you get your masters
All the best man
@@kk-qb3cj I have completed my Bachelor from Nepal. I have directly applied to PhD program after Bachelor degree.
Best of luck!
@@AndrewDotsonvideos Thanks man.
He’s becoming a lumberjack
My advisor made we study renormalization using the book: "Renormalization Methods. A Guide for Beginners" by W. D. McComb. Excelent book but focus more in statistical mechanics
Happy to know you are okay.
also make a video on books you used for learning physics.
I started with Peskin and Schroeder as a starting point for QFT in my undergrad but got stuck just after ϕ^4 theory
. After quartic interactions, the learning curve is very steep. I quickly moved to other references. And I would never advise anyone else to start with this one.
QCD: Renormalization for the Practitioner by Pasqual and Tarrach is a good book for renormalization. It is quite old but very useful imo
Your renormalization references are fine, it's an insane process anyway. Normally in math we get rid of the infinitely small, but with renormalization we get rid of the infinitely large. There is no actual mathematical rigor to it, but the calculated potentials match the measurements, so they work, and we get on with our day, then we have a beer. Renormalization is often the result of that ocean of energy below the proportion of h-bar omega. But since we can't interact with it anyway due to the Heisenberg Uncertainty, ww just sweep the whole mess under the rug, as if it was never there. Kadanoff's statistical dynamics book is decent, but you already have a decent intro in Pathria, Chapter 13 to the end. Unfortunately, Statistical Dynamics grad courses often end before they hit the end of Pathria. If nothing else, read through the last chapters ... this renormalization is useful to get an answer, but we always need to remember that it doesn't really represent what Mother Nature actually does, and in that abstraction of renormalization, we lose sight of the beauty of Nature. The statistical approach at least tries to look behind the curtain.
I’ll begin my first undergrad physics semester in 2 days. I hope I will be there one day:)
I always found Ramond's Field Theory book way more elegant and in-depth than Peskin & Schroeder, but it's true that its status as being the standard textbook and the fact it's so comprehensive is probably what still keeps it up. I gotta check Schwartz's book for sure, though.
So I was planning to start from Griffiths particle book! Do you recommend it?
Hello! I’m trying to study physics by myself. I am still new to physics, and I am not in high school yet. However I want to indulge more in the topic. Do you have any textbook recommendations for an introduction to physics?
When i first got introduced in QFT I read QFT in a nutshell which gives a nice introduction into the ideas of QFT.
There was a video where Andrew shared a link for all kinds of science and mathematics book pdfs. Can someone give me the link to that video, please?
Andy what do you know about meteorology? Any books youd recommend?
Hi Andrew!
I'm curious to know --
where did you pick up that particular copy of Peskin & Schroeder?
Did you order it directly from the publisher?
Amazon, maybe?
It looks fatter than my copy!
And I love big fat (math and physics) books -- I cannot lie!
Please let me know!
Thanks!
Not in QFT (or Physics per se) but I think I need to know both the path integral and second order quantisation formalisms, just because the former is where calculations for free energy come from, and the latter I figure I need to understand Kadanoff renormalisations (so I can understand stochastic processes).
I’d love to hear your thoughts Andrew about the book titled “ quantum field theory for the gifted amateur “ , looking forward for more of your videos.
Peace ✌️
@Andrew Are there different types of theoretical physicists other than the differences between the areas they study? Andrew, it seems your current research is very specific? Is this due to the nature of theoretical nuclear physics or your choice to research very specific topics? I understood that theoretical physicists derive new equations from previously known ones and based on new or old theories.
I found QFT - An Integrated Approach by Eduardo Fradkin also a good introduction to UGs.
Princeton university press-2021.
Yes, very clear, Integrated approach as the title says & also between the chapters.
Thank you
Finally someone call me smart :)
I like to read the books even though i dont know how to calculate most of it, but i still learn things from it😅
Excellent video
One question which is pretty straight forward
Does a charge constituent CONTINUOUSLY OR REGULARLY emitting VIRTUAL photons or only when any other charge comes into its range..
Hey there Andrew! Can you please recommend some books on physics for high school level to build up your base in physics
Taking my first course in E&M (the University physics edition) and experimental physics (yuck), these videos give me hope that the future will be better
I just ordered the Schwartz book before watching this so this is perfect, I have a course with the exact title of the book next semester so hopefully it helps me 😅 In the meantime I've really been enjoying Zee's book to get introduced to QFT, he makes it so fun to learn :) And the book on Renormalization honestly sounds great, I've been wondering about these things 🤔
Good choice! I have Zee's book on group theory, though I haven't really gone through much of it yet.
Can you make a video about books for outside reading (not textbooks)? I recently attended a Neutrino Workshop during my winter break (4 sessions) and my professor recommended to us several challenging and difficult books for outside reading (The First Three Minutes by Steven Weinberg, Black Holes, Quasars, and the Universe by Harry Shipman, Frozen Star by George Greenstein, and Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip Thorne). I'm particularly interested in astrophysics and particle/nuclear/atomic physics books. Or, if anyone wishes to reply to me with some recommendations, I will be sure to check them out! In case you were wondering, I'm a sophomore who is majoring in Astronomy and Astrophysics, just so you know the level that I'm at.
Do you (or anyone else for that matter) have an opinion on:
- A Students Guide to QFT by Klauber
- QFT for the Gifted Amateur by Lancaster and Blundell
I realise they are totally entry level books and won't necessarily have relevance to the level you're working at, but as a beginner I've found them useful.
Sir i wanted to do project on Feynman diagram..for my MSc project work..can you suggest..some idea..
i talked to u on osrs the other day xd. I'm glad u are feeling better.
Thanks a lot! See you on there next time
Hey Andrew! Great video! Have you checked out Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell, by A. Zee?
No but I’ve heard good things!
Derivation is left to the reader as an exercise
Thanks a lot
Hey Andrew, what book would you recommend for a graduate course in statistical mechanics?
How do you get your hair to look amazing every time, i always wonder
Going through schwartz in qft right now!
do you have any advice for maintaining motivation in a subject that you despise?
I personally preffer Peskin to self learning and i'm frustrated that they don't go over pQCD in details, missing their smooth explanation very much.
What did you used for learning PDF's and DIS processes?
I found this to be super useful for DIS: arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/9204208.pdf
However I can't say I used any specific resource for pdf's.
I haven’t read the last one on renormalization but read the first three. Schwartz is very good unless you read the chapter about path integrals. After reading this chapter path integral remains just a fancy sign. Showing how it works in quantum mechanics and then “by analogy” adopting it to field theory is NOT enough.
Very few books really dig into this. My personal favourite is Itzykson Zuber “QFT”, it really explains what is going on.
What about QFT for Gifted Amateur? I am using it for my QFT course.
I'm gonna recommend a book which is for me a little gem of a book:
- Quantum field theory by Srednicki.
Another superb book and more pedagogic:
- Gauge theories in particle physics by Hey and Aitchison.
You can actually use second quantization in lattice QCD. It's called the Kogut-Susskind Hamiltonian approach. It's more intuitive than the Wilson version in my opinion.
Oh interesting, I'm not familiar with that formalism but I'll have to check it out!
i recommend some CMD books on Renormalization.
Do you use effective field theory in your research?
On another note, I took a course with Prof Alan Martin at Durham.. I love his book. It's nice to see that the younger generations are still using it.
I Like Weinberg! I will be a condensed matter theorist. I am new to QFT since I took QFT I just last semester and I am taking the second one this semester. But, I like Weinberg!
Yor video is so informative thaks for making this video
Thankyou bro! I found that white colored quantum field theory textbook on Google Play! Which means one can read a sample for free before they buy, at least. I love Google Play besides the fact they dont always have every textbook I am looking for. But they had that one!
I’m a cosmologist but still watching for fun. In my research I probably reference Galactic Dynamics by Binney and Tremaine and Galaxy formation and evolution by Mo, Bosch, and White the most. Galactic Dynamics is super dense and mathematically heavy, to the point it seems more like a post-graduate level book but I’m still trying to get the hang of it. I would describe Galactic dynamics as Jackson E&M applied to gravitational fields (since the math and techniques are very similar) coupled with statistical mechanics ideas in describing particles using macroscopic ideas found in star mech (basically thinking of a system like a collection of stars or even galaxies obeying the same statistical laws and relations that microscopic gas particles do). Diffusive properties + potential theory = dynamics.
MBW is pretty much the Bible of extragalactic astrophysics, and is by far my favorite cosmology textbook but it is also extremely dense and mathematically heavy. Rather than dynamics it focuses on applying full GR equations to the universe, and analyzing what pops out again using statistical mechanics principles, actual statistical methods (quantifying clustering of galaxies or even galaxy clusters is effectively just their variance in 3D space), and fluid dynamics (pretty much everything in cosmology obeys a coupling of separate GR and fluid equations).
The big bang theory has been debunked .
Time to get working, “cosmologist”
1:06 2021 motto . Make things easy so tha you can ...look them up
Could you please suggest some books for pg in nuclear physics.....