Textbooks

	PHY854 recommended only, no required texts
In the bookstores	Physics - Sterman An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory one of three new books in the last 3 years...high energy physics oriented Peskin An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory one of three new books in the last 3 years...high energy physics oriented READ THIS>>>Sakurai Advanced Quantum Mechanics Weinberg The Quantum Theory of Fields v1 one of three new books in the last 3 years...high energy physics oriented Gupta Quantum Electrodynamics focused and terse Bjorken and Drell Relativistic Quantum Fields classical and complete but maybe a little hard to read Ziman Elements of Advanced Quantum Theory History, interpretation - Cao Conceptual Developments of 20th Century Field Theories Schweber QED and the Men Who Made It Omnes The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
On reserve, PA library	Bjorken and Drell Relativistic Quantum Mechanics This is the second generation text that most of us learned from (following the cumbersome book written by Schweber). It's terse, but complete...the first volume covers a lot of ground, doing calculations with Green's Fuction approach in a pre-field theory use of Feynman diagrams Itzykson & Zuber Quantum Field Theory Very complete and dense Ryder Quantum Field Theory good, formal text De Wit and Smith Field Theory in Particle Physics an unusual approach...HEPish with examples Hamermesh Group Theory for and Its Application to Physical Problems everything is in this dense book Landau Quantum Mechanics interesting with lots of formal scattering theory Messiah Quantum Mechanics Standard set of books Omnes The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics Sakurai Advanced Quantum Mechanics Scandron Advanced Quantum Theory emphasis on symmetry Schweber QED and the Men Who Made It Schweber Relativistic Quantum Field Theory One of the older and certainly wordiest...precurrsor to B&D Tung Group Theory in Physics Tinkham Group Theory and Quantum Mechanics standard text for quantum mechanics and symmetry Ziman Elements of Advanced Quantum Theory
	PHY853 recommended only, no required texts
In the bookstorest	Physics - Sakurai Advanced Quantum Mechanics This is to my mind still the best books around - the most physical treatment of both Dirac theory and field theory Weinberg The Quantum Theory of Fields v1 Ziman Elements of Advanced Quantum Theory a very readable account of Dirac theory and second quantization toward a many-body solid state perspective Tung Group Theory in Physics probably the best modern book on group theory from our own WuKi Tung a unique and sensible Dirac notation for linear algebra History, interpretation - Schweber QED and the Men Who Made It theoretical physicist turned historian...a very good account of the early years of quantum field theory, up to Feynman's approach. Omnes The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics