For my first research project here at the University of Tokyo, the analysis was finished in early November and the first draft of the paper came out in middle December. Besides, I took a few online courses and finished one books on field theory of condensed matter physics by Shankar.
My first research project at UTokyo
After some simple evaluations of the correctness of our idea, I started to spend most of my time working on the research project at the end of June. It was interrupted when I moved to the new dormitory KIV in July but I picked up quickly after setting down in early August.
I have a private page (private until the publication of the paper) that keeps track of everything I tried for this research project from early August. I first got the correct results at the end of September right before meeting my second supervisor. Then, I adjusted the method to stabilize the analysis. I finalize all the necessary analysis for 2D case in early November. The first draft came out in the middle of December. My professor looked at the draft and suggested we should publish a short version first as a letter, only explaining essential ideas and showing minimal examples. I’m working on the letter version of our paper now.
I will try to explain the details of this research project here after we upload it to arXiv.
Before July
- The first book I finished this year is Shankar’s QFT book, Quantum Field Theory and Condensed Matter, An Introduction. A detailed review can be found in my previous post. This book treats the renormalization group very well, and Shankar also recommend many useful review papers as an extension of what is told in the book.
- I finish a series of lecture videos mainly talking about magnetism. The detailed review can be found in this previous post. I should follow this up by reading a book on magnetism in the future.
From August to December
- I found a nice book, Good Work If You Can Get It, full of useful suggestions of how to success in Academia. It is a book every graduate school student should read if he or she wants to stay in academia. I plan to reread this book in January next year to remember the useful suggestions by heart.
- The only edX course I took this year seriously is the Russian-style complex analysis course. It gets me very comfortable working with multi-valued functions. I even realized how to solve an integral I could not solve early this year in spin-0 part of Srednicki’s QFT book after finishing this course!
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It is amazing that you can already understand my blog. 🧐🧐🧐
not every sentence
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It’s all right. Anyway, it is a good start! 🤩