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# Quantum Physics Reading Group
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Hello everyone, 
This group is for anyone who's interested in getting into Quantum Physics research or who's looking to use adjacent ideas in research for different fields.

The aim is mainly to explore and get a decent intution behind the ideas we cover. Currently, the stuff we aim to cover:
1.Basic QFT
2.Path Integrals
3.Lie Groups 
4.Operator Theory
5.Problems 

Regular Members: Sairam, Yashas, Chinmay
The plan is to meet every Saturday 8-9 pm IST and the exact structure can be decided further.

(Edited 9th Dec):
We pick problems from the MIT OCW course relativistic quantum field theory problem sets, and cover all the prerequisites required over the week to solve these problems. Meetings in the middle of the week some times to check up on progress on the problem set etc. 


## Resource Dump (Updated 8th Feb)

1. Basic Quantum Field Theory:
    1.1 QFT for the Gifted Amateur, Lancaster and Blundell
    1.2. QFT in a Nutshell,  Anthony Zee
    1.3. Peskin and Schroeder, Quantum Field theory
    1.4. QFT Cambridge- https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/qft.html
    1.5. QFT Harvard
2. Path Integral Formulation
    2.1 Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals, Feynman
3. Lie Groups
    3.1 Frederich Schuller Lectures and Lecture notes
    3.2 Great video series for basic Lie Theory - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlqVo3sJFLE
4. Basic DiffGeo
    4.1 Frederic Schuller Lectures and Lecture Notes
    4.2 (some math book)
    4.3 Playlist for Differential Forms - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL22w63XsKjqzQZtDZO_9s2HEMRJnaOTX7
5. Operator Theory
    5.1 . ( some math book)
6. Problems
    6.1.Problems from MIT OCW Relativistic QFT - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/8-323-relativistic-quantum-field-theory-i-spring-2008/pages/assignments/ 
    6.1 Problems from books listed above
    6.2 Griffiths Intro to QM. (whatever is left)
    6.3 Problem book in QFT Voja Radovanovic


## Meeting 1: 9th December
Attended by: Chinmay, Yashas
- Decided on structure for the reading group
- Decided problems to work on (will work on pset1 till next sat)
- https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/8-323-relativistic-quantum-field-theory-i-spring-2008/resources/ft1ps01_08_1/

## Meeting 2: 14th December
Attended by: Chinmay, Yashas, Sairam
- Useful reading for solving Pset 1- https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/dt281/qft/one.pdf
- Reading on Electromagnetic Field Tensor- https://quantummechanics.ucsd.edu/ph130a/130_notes/node451.html
- Playlist to Understand basics of Differential Forms- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL22w63XsKjqzQZtDZO_9s2HEMRJnaOTX7

## Meeting 3: 2nd January 
Attended by: Chinmay, Yashas
- Started reading Quantum Information and Computation (Nielsen and Schuang)

## Meeting 4: 6th January
Attended by: Chinmay, Yashas, Sairam
- Continued watching playlist on Differential Forms
- CHSH inequality and its proof
- Density Formalism read from Nielsen and Schuang

## Meeting 5: 10th January
Attended by: Chinmay
- Matrix Formalism in Ising Model

## Meeting 6: 14th January
Attended by: Chinmay, Sai
- Eigenfunctions of the Position Operatory
- Time Independent Perturbation Theory Problems from Griffiths

## Meeting 7: 27th January
Attended by: Chinmay
- More problems from Griffiths chapter 4, 5, 7

## Meeting 8: 4th February
Attended by: Chinmay, Monish (many other first time attendees)
- Discussed quanta article on penrose tilings as Quantum error correcting codes
- Basic Topology, Partial Traces, POVMs
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.13040

## Meeting 9: 8th February
Attended by: Raghav, Arjo, Aryaman, Chinmay, Rajendra
- Discussion on Consciousness (?)
- String Theory and its failure as a scientific theory pop-sci [video][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kya_LXa_y1E] 
- Discussion of the paper by Jonathan Oppenheim - A post quantum theory of classical gravity

### Resources:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKOd8imBa2s
- https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03116
    

## Meeting 10: 3rd March
Attended by: Chinmay
- Statistical Mechanics of Ising Model
- Statistical Field Theory lectures by David Tong