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Anonymous Mon 11 Nov 11:39:06 2019 No.11136318 View Reply Original Report

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How do I get into the whole quantum physics studying?

Trying to find a decent book I'm stuck reading about history or philosophy of it (obviously not what I am looking for) or I am thrown in the middle of it.

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Anonymous Mon 11 Nov 2019 11:41:45 No.11136322 Report

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Griffith's quantum mechanics. If that's too hard I don't know what to tell you.

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Anonymous Mon 11 Nov 2019 11:49:38 No.11136331 Report

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>>11136322
Ah but all books are either EASY, SHIT, or you don't have the prerequisites.

I actually have read the Griffiths QM and it is a great book. However, I'm still missing 90% of the Quantum mechanics concepts.

For example, just reading today I have met these unfamiliar concepts (never mentioned in Griffiths)
>"hopping of fermionic atoms into optical potentials"
>"spin-excitation in Mott insulator"
>"Berry phase of graphene"
>"Friedel oscillation"
>"Cantor alloy"

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Anonymous Mon 11 Nov 2019 12:02:08 No.11136358 Report

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>>11136331
Physics is a huge field, and most of it has to do with quantum physics. Don't expect you will be able to learn everything from a single textbook.

Most of those terms you listed would be more likely to be explained in a condensed matter textbook. Although "Berry phase" is something that might be explained in a good QM textbook (if it's not in Griffith's try reading the wikipedia page), and make sure you read about the Bloch theorem and everything related to that in Griffith's if you want to jump into condensed matter.

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Anonymous Mon 11 Nov 2019 12:12:01 No.11136377 Report

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>>11136331
Yeah I just double checked. Chapter 10 in Griffiths is on Berry phase. He talks about solids in chapter 5, which is an intro to a solid state textbook, which is what you really want to look at if you want to start to understand those topics (I've never even heard of a Cantor alloy, btw)

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