Field Quantization

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Summary: Talking physics
Review: Its an excellent text resource for any grad student / researcher who plans to take up cond matt. or high energy. Basically discusses the right physics with appropriate mathematical supplements. Its an encyclopedia for most processes including 4-Fermion interactions, renormalization etc. Crux : an excellent !!!!!!!! text (guide)

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Summary: Detailed guide to QFT
Review: The book's focus is on carefully explaining what quantum field theory is. Starting from classical field theories, ie. the harmonic chain, Greiner goes on to discuss 2nd quantization for spin 0, 1/2, and spin 1 fields. The results are then applied to derive the perturbation expansion for interacting fields. The last sections on quantization with path integrals is also well written, and contains more details than eg. Sakurai. Throughout, many (sometimes tedious, but) instructive examples are presented that lots of other authors just assume to be understood already.

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Summary: Great Introduction
Review: This book starts with classical field theory and moves on to some simple, but very relevent examples of nonrelativistic field quantization. Greiner works through all important relativistic system of free particles before a spectactular introduction to Feynman rules via quantum electrodynamics as the primer. The book finishes with a nice introduction to path-integral quantization. This book covers mathematical detail of relativistic field theory in a simple way, making it an excellent introductory text.