This collection of review lectures on topics in theoretical high energy physics has few rivals for clarity of exposition and depth of insight. Delivered over the past two decades at the International School of Subnuclear Physics in Erice, Sicily, the lectures help to organize and explain material that a the time existed in a confused state, scattered in the literature. At the time they were given they spread new ideas throughout the physics community and proved very popular as introductions to topics at the frontiers of research.
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"...must surely be an invaluable supplement and resource for any advanced course in particle physics...[Coleman's] writing is elegant, lean, utterly authoritative--and a bit sly and tricky...this book is a classic." Physics Today
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Delivered over the past two decades at the International School of Subnuclear Physics in Erice, Sicily, this collection of review articles on topics in theoretical high energy physics is the result of the organization of material scattered throughout the literature until then.
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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
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A wonderful book to supplement one's QFT knowledge,
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This review is from: Aspects of Symmetry: Selected Erice Lectures (Paperback)
This 400-page book contains eight lectures of varying length (some are quite long). The first two are not very useful, but the remainder of the book is wonderful. It covers topics like scale invariance, Callan-Symanzik (RG) equations, renormalization theory (Hepp's theorem), spontaneously broken symmetries, classical and quantum solitons, instantons (in QM and in gauge theories), and 1/N expansion. These are all useful topics and must be understood by those in the field, and yet not all of them are covered by ordinary quantum field theory books like Peskin & Schroeder. The style is very friendly and readable and includes a lot of endnotes, appendices, and references. This book does not "read" like Peskin/Schroeder or Weinberg or Itzykson/Zuber; those books don't read. This one does. The equations are easy to follow and this book showcases the strength of Coleman's pedagogical style. In fact I can vouch that the tone and content of these lectures serves as a close substitue for Coleman's lectures themselves. The topics were all basically developed in the 1970s, and were themselves all quite hot research areas before supersymmetry and string theory revolutionized high-energy physics. However, the majority of this book is not an anachronism -- the renormalization group, spontaneously broken symmetries, solitons, instantons, and 1/N expansion all pervade modern physics.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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A Classic,
This review is from: Aspects of Symmetry: Selected Erice Lectures (Paperback)
Coleman is one of the best field theorists and a great lecturer. His style in both research and lectures can be summarized as "turning obvious into trivial". Every topic is presented in the simplest possible way without loss of deep insights, which makes the book extremely comprehensible. The chapter on instantons is absolutely classic.
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unconventional QFT book,
This review is from: Aspects of Symmetry: Selected Erice Lectures (Paperback)
Many physicists say that Coleman is one of the great field theoriest in time. This is the collection of what he had lectured. Each chapter has own its importance. The advantage of the book is that he avoided the mathematical complication to explain the real physics. It is very unique feature in the QFT books. So you can get the concept of field theory without mathematical jargon which most students hate.
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tadpole model, electromagnetic mass splittings, topological conservation laws, octet enhancement, massless model, exact scale invariance, quark bilinears, constant gauge transformation, quantum lump, classical lump, correction gluon, determinantal factor, broken scale invariance, higher symmetry group, variational computation, spontaneous symmetry breakdown, renormalized perturbation theory, single scalar field, renormalizable field theory, renormalization counterterms, renormalizable field theories, trivial mapping, quark propagator, invariant couplings, axial gauge Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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tadpole model, electromagnetic mass splittings, topological conservation laws, octet enhancement, massless model, exact scale invariance, quark bilinears, constant gauge transformation, quantum lump, classical lump, correction gluon, determinantal factor, broken scale invariance, higher symmetry group, variational computation, spontaneous symmetry breakdown, renormalized perturbation theory, single scalar field, renormalizable field theory, renormalization counterterms, renormalizable field theories, trivial mapping, quark propagator, invariant couplings, axial gauge Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Introduction To the Theory of Quantized Fields by N N Bogoliubov on page 98, and page 111
- Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals by Richard P. Feynman on page 183, and page 348
- Mathematical Physics by L. Faddeev on page 263
- Particles and Fields 2 by Anton Z. Capri on page 349
- Relativistic Quantum Fields by James D. Bjorken on page 65
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- Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law by Peter Woit in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Modern Supersymmetry: Dynamics and Duality (International Series of Monographs on Physics) by John Terning on page 17, and page 131
- Nuclear Dynamics: From Quarks to Nuclei: Proceedings of the XXth CFIF Fall Workshop, Lisbon, Portugal, October 31 - November 2, 2002 (Few-Body Systems) by M.T. Pena on page 72
- The Quantum Theory of Fields, Vol. 2: Modern Applications by Steven Weinberg on page 247
- Quantum Non-linear Sigma-Models: From Quantum Field Theory to Supersymmetry, Conformal Field Theory, Black Holes and Strings (Theoretical and Mathematical Physics) by Sergei V. Ketov in Back Matter
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