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    Other Science and math books with nice covers

    Then there is the cover of The Feynmam Lectures on Gravitation. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0813340381/?tag=pfamazon01-20 And I also love the covers of The Feynmam Lectures in Physics - The Definitive Edition. I don't know whether they are internationally available.
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    Other Science and math books with nice covers

    Chaos An Introduction to Dynamical Systems Authors: Alligood, Kathleen T., Sauer, Tim, Yorke, James https://www.amazon.com/dp/0387946772/?tag=pfamazon01-20 This book features a painting by René Magritte on the cover. I believe the artwork is named Golconda. It's a pity the preview cover isn't...
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    B QFT for Beginners: Operators & Their Physical Significance

    Griffiths has written books on introductory quantum mechanics, particle physics, and classical electrodynamics. I am unaware of this book on quantum field theory.
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    I Interference of a single photon in an interferometer

    In 'Quantum Mechanics, 3rd Ed by S. Gasiorowicz, the author discusses the relevant portion of Dirac's text in the very beginning of Chapter 2 to motivate the validity of Schrodinger's equation. I will quote the relevant text here as it can shed some light sn the matter at hand: Supplement 18 A...
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    A Dyson's Formula from Tong's lecture notes

    Thank you for this illuminating reply. It cleared every doubt that I had. I apologize for not being able to catch it early on from your comments and forced you to spell everything out! But I am very grateful for the answer! And the digression about the "four operators" came from this comment...
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    Books on Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics

    I recently came across a book by Gerard 't Hooft. If anyone can provide a feedback, I'd be really grateful. And you can even access it for free at http://www.springer.com/in/book/9783319412849 The Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics Authors: 't Hooft, Gerard A radically...
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    A Dyson's Formula from Tong's lecture notes

    Hence I posted a comment earlier stating this is in a different manner. I hope you can appreciate the reason behind my confusion. :)
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    A Dyson's Formula from Tong's lecture notes

    So this expression has four time ordered operators?
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    A Dyson's Formula from Tong's lecture notes

    I know that we can consider differentials and integrals as operators in the mathematical sense (as done in say, linear algebra or operator theory, i.e any transformation) but here I feel when we talk about time ordering of 'operators', we are talking about observables or rather "operators as...
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    A Dyson's Formula from Tong's lecture notes

    I was talking with respect to the second order term again. I was under the impression that the operatiors being time ordered are the Hamiltonians H_I at different t's. But are we considering all the integrals ∫dt as operators also?
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    A Dyson's Formula from Tong's lecture notes

    It is sheer modesty to call this a set of lecture notes. It's basically a book. I have come across your notes before and have a copy saved in my reference manager. I decided to go through it after mastering the basics. In any case, I would like to thank you for making them available!
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    A Dyson's Formula from Tong's lecture notes

    With reference to comments made by @hilbert2 and @vanhees71, I have a question: If we treat the integration as operators then should not the time ordering now contain four operators instead of just two? Or am I missing something?
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    A Dyson's Formula from Tong's lecture notes

    It's not about the calculations. :D It seems I just got confused by the notation. It makes sense now.
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    A Dyson's Formula from Tong's lecture notes

    I am studying quantum field theory from [David Tong's lecture notes][1] and I am stuck at a particular place. In Page 52., under the heading *3.1.1 Dyson's Formula*, Tong introduces an unitary operator U(t, t_0) = T \exp(-i\int_{t_0}^{t}H_I(t') dt') He then introduces the usual definition of...
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    Intro Physics Textbooks on symmetries and physics

    Thank you for the reference. I was actually looking for an encyclopaedic book like this one.
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