Basics of Particle Physics: books and courses
Where to learn entry-level particle physics? Like most people, I have been hearing about words like "quarks, hadrons, leptons" since junior high school. However, I have never known the next…
Some summaries and thoughts on the books I read
Modern Classical Dynamics by Polyakov at Princeton: Symmetry, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Mechanics
I was so exciting to find a series of lecture videos on YouTube about Classical Physics by Professor Alexander Polyakov early this year. From the course website here or here,…
Quantum Connection 2023 Summer School
Finally, the COVID19 fades away and many activities resume starting from this April. I flight to Sweden to attend a 2-week summer school called Quantum Connections in Sweden-11 from 11…
General relativity: MIT video lectures
From middle July 2022, I started studying general relativity (GR) again. I use three resource at the same time: 1) Prof. Scott Hughes’s MIT’s physics graduate course 8.962, 2) the textbook…
Spacetime Physics by Taylor and Wheeler
Many failures and difficulty in understanding general relativity, quantum field theory, and conformal field theory I tried to follow the video lectures of the MIT course 8.962 about general relativity…
Into Rabbit Hole of Quantum Again
It has been half a year since my last post, and I forgot to post a plan for the year 2022. So first some recent updates about my physics study.…
Geometric aspect of classical mechanics
There are many approaches to classical mechanics. The first introduction in high school is intuitive and fit into our everyday experience: motion of a single particle is some trajectory in…
Quantum Theory of Solids by Subir Sachdev
I started Prof. Sachdev's Havard course Physics 295b: Quantum Theory of Solids in the end of October 2021, and finished the first 30 lecture videos in the beginning of February…
From the Ising model to the $\phi^4$ field theory
It has been a long time since my last post. I never expected that the graduate season, even for a Master's course, would be so busy. I prepared for 1)…
Many-body physics and black hole physics
During the May, I have been preparing for an application of a research funding called Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (特別研究員), provided by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science…