High School QFT for Gifted Amateurs: Preparing for Advanced QFT

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The book "Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur" by Tom Lancaster and Stephen J. Blundell is highly regarded as a solid foundation for those preparing for courses in Quantum Field Theory (QFT) and Advanced QFT. Users confirm that the topics covered in the book are broad enough to equip readers with essential knowledge for further studies. It is recommended as an excellent starting point for understanding QFT concepts. Many users express confidence in the book's ability to prepare them for more advanced materials. Overall, it is considered a valuable resource for aspiring physicists.
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Hi everyone. For anyone who has the book. I am going through Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted by Amateur Tom Lancaster and Stephen J. Blundell. Are the topics enough to prepare me for a course in QFT and then Advanced QFT? Of course I can look for other resources. But I just want to know how broad the topics are in this book.

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Yes, this is a great book and it will prepare you for more advanced QFT books.
 
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It's a very good book to start with QFT.
 
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Time reversal invariant Hamiltonians must satisfy ##[H,\Theta]=0## where ##\Theta## is time reversal operator. However, in some texts (for example see Many-body Quantum Theory in Condensed Matter Physics an introduction, HENRIK BRUUS and KARSTEN FLENSBERG, Corrected version: 14 January 2016, section 7.1.4) the time reversal invariant condition is introduced as ##H=H^*##. How these two conditions are identical?
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