PHYS5340

There are many LaTeX-based books on this topic (quantum many-body physics), but still no website-based (with MathJax support) book is available.

  1. better suitable for mooc course: easily to combined with other mooc materials (quiz, code, animation, etc.)
  2. could still build a pdf file, although not as good as LaTeX-based
  3. an example course on topological insulator topocondmat.org

An open source book is useful for this research community

  1. contribution from the whole community (I guess, mostly those new-learner)
  2. students can interact with code (parameters) to see the result

TODO

  1. the derivation step on the course

some abbreviation

  1. "i.e.": (id est) means “that is” or “in other words”. (It is used to paraphrase a statement that was just made, not to mean“for example”, and is always followed by a comma.)
  2. s.t.: such that, so that
  3. P.S. stands for postscript. It comes from the Latin post-scriptum, which literally means “written after.”
  4. cf. (short for the Latin: confer/conferatur, both meaning 'compare') is used in writing to refer the reader to other material to make a comparison with the topic being discussed

how to contribute

see how-to-contribute

TODO add license claim

TODO

  1. add copyright claim
  2. replace some not perfect figures using code plotting

misc

Feynman diagram python package

  1. link