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Perfect........2007-08-10
I received the book as it should be: knew. And it cames before the estimated time.
Wow, does this suck . . . get a different book!.......2007-06-13
Ok--I just need to help lower the overall rating for this book. I think the people who love it are professors and students who already are familiar with QFT--because it glosses over everything, does pertinent examples, etc. But that's just it, it GLOSSES over everything. Note that nearly all the higher reviews say things like: "oh, you wouldn't want to start with this book." or "Everyone knows that you're going to need more books than this one to understand it . . ." I couldn't even figure out how to create a Feynmann diagram from this book, let alone what one MEANT. FYI, my favorite QFT book so far is Weinberg's Quantum Theory of Fields.
This book is a very very very bad book which you never buy........2007-01-20
Absolutely no logic.
Perfectly nonclear.
No subject.
Mathematically poor.(very poor.)
Nonneccessary words.
No depth.
Not for self-study.
Just arrangement.
No physical insight.
No process.
No thinking.
This is indeed not a book.
This is a stuff for a vanity.
I wonder whether Peskin and Schroeder are genuine physicists.
Don't make the same fault I did!.......2006-12-16
Hi there!
The important information first: I'm a graduate student, mainly interested in theoretical physics. At the moment, I'm trying to get a deeper understanding of QFT.
Peskin's QFT book is NOT the one you should buy if you want to UNDERSTAND renormalization.
I learned the basics of QFT (\phi^4 and QED up to a first contact with renormalization - "trivial" subtraction of infinities) in a lecture and I finally felt like: "What does renormalization mean? What is it good for? Is there a deeper truth in it?" Well, the answer to the last question is definitely yes. It's about the Beta function. This function tells you how the coupling constants of a QFT behave at different momenta. E.g., we can learn from it why perturbation theory works for QED at low energies and for QCD at high energies (I think, this is amazing).
What I just said I learned from Huang's book. Peskin "deals" with it in chapters 10 to 12. In the middle of chapter 12 I finally said to myself: "Hey, don't feel stupid. This book is just completely incomprehensible here."
In my opinion, if you want to see behind renormalization (and therefore behind any QFT(!!)), don't buy Peskin's book. Any other book is better regarding this issue.
It is sad that we don't have a better book out there..........2006-05-28
The main problem of this book: what exactly is it supposed to be?
If it is an introduction, then the opening chapters are written at a level too sophisticated that an average first-time student can't handle.
If it aims to be a "bible" of the subject, then the later chapters are far too technical, loaded with only Feynman diagram calculations for standard model. Not being a phenomenologist, I personally have very little interest in all the technical detail, and apparently several other reviewers share my view here.
Now let me gives some examples to support my claim.
First, C, P and T symmetries are introduced very early on (right after Dirac spinor), and in a very formal way. Yes, they logically belong there, but in an "introduction" of the subject you don't throw out an isolated topic like this which you don't make use of in the following few hundred pages.
The part on cannonical quantization is written at a very fast pace. A complex scalar field is probably the first model you can construct with charged particles. And guess what kind of treatment it receives in this book? Not a single word in the main text. The problem 2 of that chapter essentially asks you to work out the content of this model with few hints given. If you have troble working it out, which is not uncommon for a first-timer, then you won't see the logic behind the decomposition of a complex Dirac field either. This is done in the following chapter, with no explaination.
Like the charged scalar field example, some important pieces of knowledge are hidden only in the exercises. So if you treat these high-power opening chapters as your bible-type reference, you will often end up in the frustrating situation that the book tells you to work out by yourself what you are seeking in the first place.
Now get to the later parts of the book. As I mentioned above, the second half of the book is almost conceptually too simple, overloaded with technical details.
This downfall begins around the renormalization group. On the back of this book, this Prof. Micheal Dine is qouted: "it is the only field theory text with a thoroughly modern, Wilsonian treatment of renormalization". The connection between the Wilsonian idea and dimensional regularization/renormalization scale is shaky at best. You read the text, and are left puzzled at the magic: how does a cut-off scale become some (much lower) arbitrary momentum scale? No explaination. The Wilsonian theory is completely isolated and have little connection with the rest of the renormalization section.
Furthermore, the book does not do a very good job on Lie algebra and non-abilien Lie groups. I mean, come on, if this is an "introduction" type of book, make it more readable. If this is a "bible" type of book, make it more comprehensive.
Having voiced all my bad opinions, I have to admit that the book has its merit. Bottom line is, this is a book written by phenomenologists for phenomenologists. If you view it from such an angle, it is not too badly written after all, and does cover most of the important topics a phnomenologist would want to know. But you may want to start from a more accessible text such as Ryder.
If you are a theorist, but not a phenomenologist, then, well, let's say the ability of getting through the first part perfectly is the minimum requirement for your research.
If you are an experimentalist, don't bother.
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The Early Universe has become the standard reference on forefront topics in cosmology, particularly to the early history of the Universe. Subjects covered include primordial nubleosynthesis, baryogenesis, phases transitions, inflation, dark matter, and galaxy formation, relics such as axions, neutrinos and monopoles, and speculations about the Universe at the Planck time. The book includes more than ninety figures as well as a five-page update discussing recent developments such as the COBE results.
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Very good introduction to cosmology.......2006-05-09
The Early Universe provides an excellent introduction to the topics it covers, including the standard big bang cosmology, baryogenesis and inflation. I read Dodelson's Modern Cosmology before this text, and the two compliment each other. The Early Universe provides a more complete and physically intuitive description of the standard big bang cosmology, including the role of thermodynamics, nucleosynthesis and out-of-equilibrium dynamics. Because of the attention to the "background" dynamics, and also to baryogenesis, phase transitions, inflation, and other applications of high energy physics, one gets a better sense of the "bigger picture" with Kolb and Turner's text. On the other hand, The Early Universe lacks any technical discussion of metric perturbations and CMB analysis, which are important components of much current research. These are highly emphasized in Dodelson's text. For appropriate topics, I have found The Early Universe to be a very good reference.
Please create an audio adaptation ..........1999-06-02
To the publisher I would appreciate it if the publisher could produce an audio adaptation of this book. I would love to listen to this while I drive to work and to let my 16 month old son listen to it as a bedtime story. Arnold D Veness
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Field Theory presents the recent advances of perturbative relativistic field theory in a pedagogical and straightforward way. It will be of interest to graduate students who intend to specialize in high-energy physics.
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A grad student's viewpoint.......2006-03-10
This book, unlike "standard" texts like Peskin & Schroeder, deals more with the formal aspects of field theory, and may not be so useful for the person interested in phenomenology. Wilsonian RG is missing too, but it's a great place for an introduction to gauge theory. The misprints can be annoying, but at the same time keep you on your toes. The presentation is somewhat terse, and to work through a page of this book can be equivalent to working through several pages of another book, say Peskin & Schroeder.
A good book to learn Feynman diagrams.......2000-05-12
A reader can learn how to compute the Green's functions and the scattering amplitudes using Feynman diagrams. The scalar Klein-Gordon field is used as a pedagogical example at the beginning. The philosophy of the path integral is used all over the book. However, the book does not emphasize the philosophy of the Wilson renormalization group and in this sense the primer is not modern. Nevertheless, Pierre Ramond is a pretty famous scientist and you can learn many things from this book.
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The purpose of this book is to introduce string theory without assuming any background in quantum field theory. Part I of this book follows the development of quantum field theory for point particles, while Part II introduces strings. All of the tools and concepts that are needed to quantize strings are developed first for point particles. Thus, Part I presents the main framework of quantum field theory and provides for a coherent development of the generalization and application of quantum field theory for point particles to strings.
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Much inferior to Ryder for intro QFT.......2002-06-09
I endorse most of what the reviewer below says except that Jasonc65 from Wilmington has forgotten that the derivative with respect to complex z=x+iy is d/dz=1/2(d/dx - i.d/dy) so that he should have got pi=half[i.phi(star)] by both methods - which is the right answer! Hatfield has simply got it wrong. Similarly,pi(star)=minus half(i.phi). For the correct treatment see Franz Gross "Relativistic Q.M. and Field Theory" chapter 7. And it's not the only error; simply "plugging (2.52) into an equation like (2.47)" clearly does not give (2.50) and (2.51) but gives an imaginary probability density and no i-factor in the spatial components.
Hatfield's treatment is not the step by step approach claimed but rather piecemeal and with a cavalier attitude to index house-keeping minus signs and factors of i and 1/2 etc. He is further let down by the typesetting of Perseus books that makes hardly any use of boldface characters, uses a point size for indices and suffixes not much smaller than the normal font and an almost typewriter-like character spacing in equations and formulae that make them sprawl across the page in a way less easy to scan than most other publisher's neatly grouped expressions.
For a step by step introduction that is clear, reasonably rigorous and more readable than Hatfield, I would strongly recommend Lewis Ryder's QFT book notwithstanding that it is mainly oriented towards the path integral formulation.
an intriguing book, what should I say?.......2002-04-03
This book promises to be a nice read for someone with minimal background. And many people with backgrounds in physics say it's an easy read. Maybe it is for them, but not for me. Now, I admit, I am a wannabe physicist. Most of my background is in pure mathematics and computer programming. However, I have recently taken up an interest in physics, and of all the sciences, I find that books in advanced physics are the most difficult to understand, in general. It has taken me many painful hours just to understand the Langrangian and the Hamiltonian, and just last week I finally mastered Noether's theorem. And by page 20 of this book, I'm exposed to the Lagrangian density, kind of a continuous extension of the notion of the Lagrangian. Well, generalizing from finitely many particles to a continuous field is not really that difficult. And I guess that is a very important insight in and of itself. But as I read the next 5 pages, I am absolutely dumbfounded by the stretch of rigor. I can't guess what rule they'll break next, as they assume that every calculation rule will carry over in their transition from one domain to another. In fact, as I write this review, I am still stuck pondering page 25, wondering how they justify every single step.
This is not the first time I've tried to read this book. I've had to frequently consult other books on mathematical physics before I could proceed any further. Now, I admit, that while my background in mathematics is thorough, I've never had a formal education in physics, and I'm trying as best as I can to read all the books on mathematical physics, quantum mechanics, QFT, QED, GR, etc. And I think I have the handle on the Hamiltonian, and how it is used in both classical and quantum mechanics.
On pages 21-22, I have to pour over calucations using integration by parts, and using some unstated boundary conditions, a minor difficulty with which I can cope. But then I find out the the author wants the Lagrangian density to depend on a complex function, and it's conjugate. So while I'm stuck in the middle of page 23, I have to redo all the calculations in my head. Now, that sure isn't step by step detail, as the preface claims. The author doesn't even tell me how I'm supposed to differentiate with respect to the complex functions. Am I supposed to treat the field and its conjugate as complex variables, or am I supposed to pretend that the Lagrangian density really depends on the real and imaginary parts of the field and thus consider two real fields instead of one complex field? I've tried both methods, and neither one of them satisfies my sense of rigor.
In equation (2.52), the author gives the Lagrangian, promising the reader it can easily be calculated by working backwards through the previous equations. I don't find that easy to do in my head at all. I've managed to work forwards and verify that the Lagrangian satisfies the invariance and reproduces Shroedinger's equation. But that was only after I poured over the next paragraph and realized that the transformation factor was supposed to be an imaginary number. Until then, it didn't make sense at all.
Now, I get to (2.53), where Hatfield gives the conjugate momentum as pi = i conjugate phi, without showing any intermediate steps. I tried differentiating with respect to the real and imaginary parts, and I got pi = -i phi. When I tried it again with complex differentiation, which I feel is less plausible, I got pi = i/2 conjugate phi. As always, either I'm not understanding what how the author wants me to make the transition, or else he's doing a sloppy job of it. Of course, like most other physics books, there are arithmetic errors that I have to sort through, and that only makes it worse. I find out only after pondering for days on a single line that the author meant a plus sign where he used a minus.
Well, I tried to forget about this confusion and move on. The author gives the Hamiltonian in (2.55), and then begins to discuss how to second quantize the result. Now, I'm not even sure how the differential operator carries over. In order to justify the claim that (2.55) reproduces the (2.37), it seems that I have to now assume that both d/dx and V(x) commute with phi(x,t). In the first quantized system, this is pure nonsense.
Now, I'm on page 25, where the author is discussing expansion in terms of eigenfunctions. It is smooth sailing until I get to (2.59), where in order to justify the last step, Hatfield makes the absurd claim (2.60), and I'm still trying to figure it out. I can only justify that claim if I confuse integer variables with continuous variables and treat the equation as a matrix equation. After all, you're dealing with a unitary matrix. But just try it with Hermite functions (energy eigenfunctions for the harmonic oscillator problem) and you'll run into problems with infinities. Of course, calculations with the Dirac delta function have never been fully rigorous, so maybe I'm kidding myself.
As you can see, I've only begun the book, so I can't really give a complete review of the whole thing, but it sure seems to be promising to be one headache after another.
Nice to read, but not complete........2001-03-20
This book is nice to read, I agree with most of the previous reviews about this. Some things are interesting, e.g. the chapter on Schrodinger picture, which is almost completely ignored in most textbooks. The style is very readable and the text gives some useful insights. However, it is not suitable as a reference on QFT or on strings because a number of subjects are left out: renormalisation of gauge theories (only QED is handled), symmetry breaking, the standard model, dimensional regularisation, supersymmetry, superstrings. In less pages, Ryder covers all these subjects, except strings, but in the end gives less insight on the inner working of the theory.
One of the best for understanding QFT.......2001-03-14
This book is readable (you don't have to sit down with paper and pencil and work out a page of calculations to get from one line to the next, for most of the text)and it is clear (concepts are defined and explained). It is not really suitable as a first exposure to QFT for the reader would be better off with some familiarity with Feynman diagrams and relativistic quantum mechanics beforehand. With this background Hatfield's book is very valuable as a source for understanding the meaning behind QFT. Many other field theory texts seem to be concerned with little beyond the motions of handling the mechanical formalism and obtaining quantitative results to problems. This book instead gives the reader insight into field theory, does a good job at giving the big picture and stressing the transition from ordinary QM to the field aspect. Besides this, Hatfield's informal prose makes the book enjoyable to read. It has a fair share of typos throughout but most are quite easy to find. Compared to some of the popular field theory texts out there (P&S, Ryder) this one stands head and shoulders above.
Excellent reference book for students.......2001-03-07
This is not a typical field theory book. From the very beginning the aim is to teach the reader all the concepts and methods which will be useful to learn string theory which form the last third of the book. Excellent examples of this can be found in the chapters on path integral and also in the chapter on Fadeev-Popov method. Almost all calculations are shown in step by step detail and it is very useful for the students who are learning field theory for the first time. The organization of the book is a little different from the usual mold of field theory books, but one can get use to it. One just has to realize that while most of the field theory books on the market (except for Weinberg's 3 volume text and one or two other) aim at teaching how to derive Feynman rules and how to calculate a few processes , this book by Hatfield is trying to take the "field theory book" audiance (who are usually phenomenology oriented) to a different playground "introduction to strings". This is an excellent book and a definite break from the old "B&D book 1 and 2" tradition and I would recommend it to both students and teachers (most of whom are still stuck in the old mode) alike. K. M. Maung Department of Physics Hampton University Hampton, Virginia 23668
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The story of physicists' quest to answer a mind-boggling question: How can we travel through time?
Since H. G. Wells' 1895 classic The Time Machine, readers of science fiction have puzzled over the paradoxes of time travel. What would happen if a time traveler tried to change history? Would some force or law of nature prevent him? Or would his action produce a "new" history, branching away from the original?
In the last decade of the twentieth century a group of theoretical physicists at the California Institute of Technology undertook a serious investigation of the possibility of pastward time travel, inspiring a serious and sustained study that engaged more than thirty physicists working at universities and institutes around the world.
Many of the figures involved are familiar: Einstein, Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne; others are names known mostly to physicists. These are the new time travelers, and this is the story of their work--a profoundly human endeavor marked by advances, retreats, and no small share of surprises. It is a fantastic journey to the frontiers of physics. 15 illustrations.
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Great read .......2007-08-23
When I was a kid I was completely mesmerized by the Time Tunnel -- a 1960s sci-fi series about two research scientists who become trapped in a top secret portal through time. David Toomey doesn't have my beloved Dr. Tony Newman (played memorably by James Darren, in form-fitting corduroy) but his book is populated by scientists who, if not quite as sexy, are just as captivating. I found myself fascinated by the book's take on the scientific community and how it works -- how concepts evolve over time, and also, maybe even especially, how ideas can migrate back and forth between scientists and the world of science fiction. Toomey does a great job of making the science itself accessible, but for me the really careful description of how scientific insight builds over time, how epiphanies large and small, new and sometimes pretty old, accumulate and eventually become theories, was worth the price of admission alone. The politics of science research and publication is also really present in the book -- I got a good sense of how on-the-ground professional factors shape the high-flying theory in play. It was a great read.
Physics can be fun!.......2007-08-23
Anytime that I have picked up a book about the space-time continuum and quantum physics I feel that the adventure begins. Unfortunately the adventure can end quite early if the writing is thick and obscure as a tunnel that connects two black holes. Mr. Toomey's book, however, is extremely readable. In fact I couldn't put it down. He manages to explain complex ideas and theories very clearly and understandably. I enjoyed this book very much and encourage anyone with an interest in time travel to pick it up and give it a read. This is a fun book!
Cover-to-cover in three days! Great science fiction without the fiction........2007-08-01
I love to read science fiction, especially the classic short stories. I must admit I approached this book with some trepidation..... my "summer reading" rarely includes non-fiction, especially science.
Having said that, I am very glad this book was recommended to me. I bought it on a whim and--even though it looked daunting (lined up next to the paperback novels)--I read it cover-to-cover in three days. That's saying a LOT, as I have the attention span of a ...
Okay, about the book: I learned some things I didn't know before about relativity, I laughed at some stories of theoretical physicists at work, and got a welcome dose of time travel paradoxes. My favorite is the classic "grandfather paradox"--that is, can a time traveler kill her grandfather and so change the past? I've read about it in science fiction, but Toomey (and the physicists he talked to) offer much more complex and provocative discussions in The New Time Travelers.
I find it amazing to discover what these physicists and philosophers are theorizing and debating about. For instance, the book talks about Igor Novikov, a physicist who suggests that if a natural time machine exists somewhere in the universe and we can reach it via unmanned spacecraft, we could exploit something called the "Bootstrap Paradox" (gotta love that name for a time travel paradox, eh?) and force the spacecraft to create itself. It would carry knowledge of its own design and the location of the natural time machine from the future to us in the present.
Are they dreaming up the next science fiction bestseller? Nope. It's serious science. This is why I like the book so much. It sounds a LOT like science fiction, but these ideas been debated among theoretical physicists. All very serious, all very plausible....well, debatable, at least, which is a start. I would have been just as skeptical of virtual reality or gene manipulation only 20 years ago, so you never know.
I totally recommend this book. I honestly can't believe I enjoyed it so much, given the books normally on my summer reading list....
As fascinating as it is startling.......2007-07-15
This book completely caught me off guard. Not only did I not know the extent to which time travel has been seriously considered by contemporary physicists and mathematicians, but I was taken aback by various counterintuitive and provocative themes that pop up here and there. For example, it's obviously clear that hard science has influenced science fiction writing, but Toomey brings up specific examples in which physicists actually credit the influence of an idea in story or novel in their conceptualization of spacetime. That being said, Toomey doesn't beat connections like those to death. The book moves at a brisk pace. It delves into fairly heady theories and hypotheses--e.g., wormholes, supraluminary signals, cosmic strings--but it manages to provide just the right amount of explanatory detail to keep the narrative engaging. (Who would have thought that theoretical physics would make good summer reading?) He does provide very thorough citations too (roughly 80 pages are devoted to endnotes, a glossary, and index.)
The style, subject matter, intelligence, and comic timing compare very favorably to Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything. Of course, Toomey's task at hand is certainly more focused. In addition, Toomey is not satisfied with simply meditating on questions or sowing a sense of the awe and vastness of the universe. It's clear he wants answers. He wants his time machine. I do too.
Riveting Non-Fiction.......2007-07-09
Not since Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' have we seen such a fascinating trip through space and time. Take your new copy of 'The New Time Travelers' and find your favorite late night reading spot. Barrel through the pages, alone under your sheets with a flashlight, barricaded in that closet under your stairs, with a crack of light showing under the door, or under the street lamp outside your lover's window. Prepare to have your mind blown.
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This book is a collection of selected papers on the Frontier Orbital Theory by Nobel prizewinner Kenichi Fukui (Chemistry 1981), with introductory notes. It provides the basic concept and formulation of the theory, and the physical and chemical significance of the frontier orbital interactions in chemistry, together with many practical applications. The formulation of the Intrinsic Reaction Coordinate and applications to some simple systems are also presented. The aim of this volume is to show by what forces chemical reactions are driven and to demonstrate how the regio- and stereo-selectivities are determined in chemical reactions. Students and senior investigators will gain insight into the nature of chemical reactions and find out how quantum chemical calculations are connected with chemical intuition.
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