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> No good textbooks on quantum mechanics or QFT exist

No love for Cohen-Tannoudji?



Haven't read it, but based on the table of contents it looks like it has at least two of the very common problems with QM books: (1) starts with continuous degrees of freedom rather than qubits, and (2) talks about observables rather than PVMs. This isn't surprising since much of what's wrong with how QM is taught has been illuminated by the young field of quantum information, which hardly existed when the book was published in 1992.

For me talking more about the second point, see here: http://blog.jessriedel.com/2016/11/12/how-to-think-about-qua...




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