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An accessible, comprehensive reference to modern quantum mechanics and field theory. In surveying available books on advanced quantum mechanics and field theory, Franz Gross determined that while established books were outdated, newer titles tended to focus on recent developments and disregard the basics. Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Field Theory fills this striking gap in the field. With a strong emphasis on applications to practical problems as well as calculations, Dr. Gross provides complete, up-to-date coverage of both elementary and advanced topics essential for a well-rounded understanding of the field. Developing the material at a level accessible even to newcomers to quantum mechanics, the book begins with topics that every physicist should know-quantization of the electromagnetic field, relativistic one body wave equations, and the theoretical explanation of atomic decay. Subsequent chapters prepare readers for advanced work, covering such major topics as gauge theories, path integral techniques, spontaneous symmetry breaking, and an introduction to QCD, chiral symmetry, and the Standard Model. A special chapter is devoted to relativistic bound state wave equations-an important topic that is often overlooked in other books. Clear and concise throughout, Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Field Theory boasts examples from atomic and nuclear physics as well as particle physics, and includes appendices with background material. It is an essential reference for anyone working in quantum mechanics today.

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Editorial Reviews: From the Inside Flap An accessible, comprehensive reference to modern quantum mechanics and field theory. In surveying available books on advanced quantum mechanics and field theory, Franz Gross determined that while established books were outdated, newer titles tended to focus on recent developments and disregard the basics. Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Field Theory fills this striking gap in the field. With a strong emphasis on applications to practical problems as well as calculations, Dr. Gross provides complete, up-to-date coverage of both elementary and advanced topics essential for a well-rounded understanding of the field. Developing the material at a level accessible even to newcomers to quantum mechanics, the book begins with topics that every physicist should know-quantization of the electromagnetic field, relativistic one body wave equations, and the theoretical explanation of atomic decay. Subsequent chapters prepare readers for advanced work, covering such major topics as gauge theories, path integral techniques, spontaneous symmetry breaking, and an introduction to QCD, chiral symmetry, and the Standard Model. A special chapter is devoted to relativistic bound state wave equations-an important topic that is often overlooked in other books. Clear and concise throughout, Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Field Theory boasts examples from atomic and nuclear physics as well as particle physics, and includes appendices with background material. It is an essential reference for anyone working in quantum mechanics today. From the Back Cover An accessible, comprehensive reference to modern quantum mechanics and field theory. In surveying available books on advanced quantum mechanics and field theory, Franz Gross determined that while established books were outdated, newer titles tended to focus on recent developments and disregard the basics. Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Field Theory fills this striking gap in the field. With a strong emphasis on applications to practical problems as well as calculations, Dr. Gross provides complete, up-to-date coverage of both elementary and advanced topics essential for a well-rounded understanding of the field. Developing the material at a level accessible even to newcomers to quantum mechanics, the book begins with topics that every physicist should know-quantization of the electromagnetic field, relativistic one body wave equations, and the theoretical explanation of atomic decay. Subsequent chapters prepare readers for advanced work, covering such major topics as gauge theories, path integral techniques, spontaneous symmetry breaking, and an introduction to QCD, chiral symmetry, and the Standard Model. A special chapter is devoted to relativistic bound state wave equations-an important topic that is often overlooked in other books. Clear and concise throughout, Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Field Theory boasts examples from atomic and nuclear physics as well as particle physics, and includes appendices with background material. It is an essential reference for anyone working in quantum mechanics today. About the Author FRANZ GROSS is Professor of Physics at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and senior staff theorist at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLAB). Widely published in the field, Dr. Gross is well known for his research on problems in theoretical nuclear and particle physics and is an expert on the relativistic few body problem. Read more

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⭐As an experimentalist, I find that this is a very approachable intro to relativistic quantum mechanics and field theory. We are using this for an advanced quantum class and my professor, a colleague of Gross, follows this book closely. I have to admit it is one of my favorite grad level text I’ve had yet. It contains fewer assumptions and less attitude than Jackson and the breadth of Zangwill, but in advanced quantum material. This will likely be my last class, so it’s nice to have such an approachable text.However, the first few chapters contain a ton of print issues with the letters of one page being bled onto the facing page, like it was put together with wet ink. But, it seems to stop after the first few chapters. The pdf is available for free from the publisher, but it’s awful quality. This copy makes me want to read it because it’s nice to look at compared to the ebook.

⭐Great book

⭐Excellent book for biggener in relativists quantum field theory

⭐Excellent discussion of all topics

⭐It was really good.I’m satisfying it.

⭐Most quantum field theory textbooks use two interacting particles as the primary example for introducing Feynman diagrams–an interaction which requires 4 field operators (2 in/2 out). Because 4 field operators are involved, this kind of interaction falls under the heading of “phi4” (i.e. the operator phi to the 4th power) theory. Gross, however, introduces Feynman diagrams by first considering the case where a single scalar particle decays into 2 fermions (a fermion and its anti-fermion), and the other analogous cases involving two such fermions and a scalar particle. These cases fall under the aegis of “phi3” theory. I find phi3 theory much easier to understand than phi4 theory. Also, it is easier for me to understand more complicated Feynman diagrams when I see them as broken down into phi3 elements. See especially p.203, Fig.7.1, for illustrations of the Feynman diagrams corresponding to the 8 possible phi3 interactions. I was led to this book while searching for a treatment of ladder diagrams, which are first treated on p.374.For my taste, Gross is not the most easily understandable introductory QTF text. I would choose Ryder’s

⭐as one’s first QTF text, and Peskin and Schroeder’s

⭐as the second QTF text that one should read. Gross, with its lucid phi3-oriented treatment of Feynman diagrams, might be the third QTF text that one should read.

⭐Things I liked about the book:- The first half of the book was very readable, and provides a lot of physical insight- Very good coverage of 2nd Quantization, provides a lot of intuition for the subject: the idea of Fock spaces and particles as excitations of fields really clicked for me after reading the first couple of sections- The book is fairly accessible for a first book in QFT (at least the first half), it makes a good connection between QFT and non-relativistic quantum mechanics.Things I didn’t like about the book:- The more advanced topics (basically the entire second half of the book, but especially the sections on renormalization and spontaneous symmetry breaking) were very unsystematically presented. For example, renormalization was presented merely as a way to remove infinities from loop diagrams, the dimensional regularization methods were not justified or motivated.Overall – I would recommend the first half of this book as an introduction to QFT, but there are much better introductory books out there (see Srednicki, or Zee, or Ryder).

⭐Excellent as an introduction (independent, even!) to QFT. The choice of topics is extensive and the presentation is logical, concise, and clear. Pleasantly surprising is the amount of physical insight accompanying calculations. The problems are well-chosen and helpful.

⭐量子力学をある程度学び、場の理論の名著と知られているPeskinやA.Zee, Srednicki、などいろいろな本を十数冊買いあさってどれも読もうとしても全然理解できなかったが、ついにこの一冊(Frantz Gross)に巡り会うことによって場の理論を理解し始めることができました。 ほかの本とは違って、イメージを大事にしている(A.Zeeもこれに関してはよく書かれている）にもかかわらず、式を１つ１つ丁寧に導いている。しっかりしているのに直感的な概念も植えてくれる本はこれ以外今現在ではないと思います。さらに、ほかの本は相対的量子力学もまともにやるまえから場の理論に最初からどっぷり浸かるのでわかりにくいと思いますが、この本は名前の通り相対的量子力学も丁寧に説明してくれています。 場の理論にこれから入るという人にはこの本ほど丁寧にわかりやすく書かれている本はないと思います。

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