A Modern Introduction to Quantum Field Theory (Oxford Master Series in Physics Book 12) 1st Edition by Michele Maggiore | (PDF) Free Download

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The importance and the beauty of modern quantum field theory resides in the power and variety of its methods and ideas, which find application in domains as different as particle physics, cosmology, condensed matter, statistical mechanics and critical phenomena. This book introduces the reader to the modern developments, assuming no previous knowledge of quantum field theory. Along with standard topics like Feynman diagrams, the book discusses effective lagrangians,renormalization group equations, the path integral formulation, spontaneous symmetry breaking and non-abelian gauge theories. The inclusion of more advanced topics will also make this a most useful book for graduate students and researchers.

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⭐I started to work on this book after reading A. Zee’s “group theory for physicists in a nutshell”. Because A. Zee’s book built a group theoretical infrastructure for understanding QFT, I was able to finish reading this book relatively pain-free. This book exposes the core concepts of QFT in a concise, clear, logic and comprehensible way, so I didn’t have to get too involved in the details of some technical problems. The book is worth reading multiple times to have the most important concepts of QFT engraved. Although I may need to work out some of the derivations myself, most of the missing steps in the book can be found in other books such as Peskin, Lancaster, or Coleman. I highly recommend the use of this book as the first book to tackle QFT (perhaps accompanied by the book “Quantum field theory for the gifted amateur”).

⭐The other reviewer is right that the kindle edition is well put together. No tiny equations or rampant misprints, though there are some typos. Maggiore is an excellent educator and knows how to explain things. The book is on the short side at under 300 pages and it felt a little like a crash course in representation theory at the beginning. I feel however that I received a very solid foundation to the subject from this book and am glad I started with Maggiore. On a side note, the review by Joao Caetano Oliveira Carvalho bothers me in that the picture they provide is not of this book, it’s Landau and Livshitz V2! I also think it’s distasteful to review the shipping as opposed to the book itself but that’s secondary. I reported it but could not explain why it’s “abuse” or “inappropriate” and Amazon might not catch the issue as a result. I hope they do.

⭐With this excellent book the path that a cultivated layman should follow to fulfill his noble attempt to familiarize himself with QFT is firmly traced. He (or of course She) should first read David Griffiths’ book, “Introduction to Elementary Particles” to acquire a general idea of what QFT is all about. Having done so, in a Landau scale 1 to 10, he will now be at level 9. He should then read Maggiore’s book aiming for an incomparably deeper understanding of the field that will catapult him to level 5 (keep in mind that Landau placed himself at level three!). About Maggiore’s book: The author in chapter two, about Lie, Lorentz, Poincaré groups, and representations, warns the reader that its understanding will not be a picnic.It is however apparent that the author has done the best (as also in the sections concerning Noether’s theorem, Spinor fields and Dirac Equation, Lehmann-Symanzik-Zimmermann -reduction formula, Path Integral Quantization….) to clarify difficult issues. At the aimed level of the book I think that it was a good idea to limit the discussions to the low energy approximation of the electroweak theory, and to expound only the two main ingredients of the Standard Model, namely Yang-Mills theories and the Higgs mechanism.The best introductory book on the field in my opinion.

⭐Tried multiple QFT books but kept on coming back to Maggiore’s book.Maggiore exposes the reader only to the important topics and succeeds in explaining most of them in 265 pages; in comparison, Sredniki’s

⭐is > 600 pages while Peskin & Schroeders’

⭐is > 800 pages!Maggiore’s style is terse, so expect making progress one paragraph at a time. The good news is that rereading helps. Again, this is unlike the above mentioned two classics where you can reread the same sections all you want and still would not make progress.If you want to start with an easier introduction, try Robinson’s

⭐or even Griffith’s

⭐. So Griffiths –> Robinson –> Maggiore would be a reasonable sequence of books to read.Five stars are compared to other QFT books and do not imply this book is perfect. The binding comes out after some use, I found chapter 1 to be unnecessary, and wish some topics were explained in more detail – wanted the Standard Model to be discussed at the end.

⭐This book is the quickest way to learn a lot of qft at a deep level. If you are an advanced undergraduate (taken all the required undergrad courses and have sufficient math background) that is wanting to learn QFT, this is the best resource. If you tried reading peskin, but couldn’t get past the first few pages of chapter 2, check this book out. I found it a pleasure to read, and all the concepts were explained in a way that I found to be the most comprehensible. Additionally it has solutions to all the problems in the book. I suppose the only downside of this book is that there is not a lot of material which is both a strength and a weakness. Because the book is so small it’s less intimidating, but at the same time a lot of advanced material is left out(e.g. anomalies and ghost fields). For a grad course the book could be covered in a semester. I highly recommend this book to start off learning qft.

⭐I agree with all the previous 5 star reviews, this is a great book as an intro to QFT.Just wanted to let everyone know it reads well on a Kindle, PC or iPad Air. The equations are very readable, as is the text.

⭐if the reader has basic knowledge of quantum mechanics and introductory special theory of relativity, then this an excellent introduction to QFT without going into a deeper level.

⭐Great to start QFT simple and pedagogical for me

⭐This an excellent introduction to quantum field theory covering in less than 300 pages most of the essentials needed for more advanced texts in QFT, particle physics and applications of QFT to the AdS/CFT correspondence. After an introductory chapter the book begins with chp2 on Lorentz and Poincare symmetries in QFT, the earlier parts of chp2 I found a little terse and difficult to follow, but on progressing with the chapter the concepts and ideas became clearer and better explained. Chapters 3-6 explains the mechanics of QFT in a clear systematic and concise manner. Throughout the concepts are well presented and the derivations are not difficult to follow, with some effort. Having said this, the topics in the book are limited and to go further one needs to follow up this book with the likes of Peskin and Schroeder or Schwartz, for which this book will be a very good preparation. Overall I am very happy with this book and learnt some important fundamental topics in QFT in preparation for more advanced texts.

⭐This book, unlike Peskin and Schroeder for instance, really starts at the start. Before going into classical field theory, let alone quantum field theory, the author presents a rigorous treatment of the Lorentz and Poincare group. These early chapters really meant I understood what was going on later in the book, as we begin to build field theories containing all sorts of invariances and symmetries. This is in no way an elementary book though and I, as an MSc student in theoretical physics, learned perturbation theory in QED solely through the use of this resource. It went into sufficient technical depth so that my transition to an advanced QFT course went smoothly.

⭐This is by far the very best book I have gone through on the subject.If you are about to have one book to really master the subject, this is it.Said that. Take it as a “stripped” version of Peskin & Schröeder (the one we were taught the subject for those of us who were graduating in the late 90s). This is much better to learn the subject. Add David Tong’s notes and Peskin & Schröder and Robert Wald’s “QFT in Curved Spacetime…” (awfull typesetting but powerfull treatment).

⭐Dal mio punto di vista, questo testo soddisfa i requisiti di chiarezza che ogni buon testo introduttivo dovrebbe avere. Si parte da un inquadramento teorico-sperimentale delle problematiche e delle scale di energia nel campo della fisica delle alte energie. Si fa vedere in maniera eccellente quanto la materia del testo generalizzi quanto già noto nell’ambito dell’Elettrodinamica classica.Inizia poi un affascinante tour alla scoperta degli strumenti matematici (algebre di Lie) necessari per la piena comprensione della formulazione quantistica della teoria dei campi. L’autore appassiona il lettore con simpatiche note di colore durante tutta la trattazione. Nel complesso tale libro, nella sua natura di Introduzione, è eccellente.Una materia difficile spiegata in maniera chiara come Maggiore sa fare. Consigliato a tutti anche perché ha un punto di vista che spesso in moto altri libri di teoria dei campi non viene usato. Ancora meglio se usato in parallelo con il Peskin Schroeder, riesce a colmare alcune mancanze del secondo in “user friendliness”

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