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Finished Chapter 3; the key takeaway is quantization of driven harmonic oscillator is "the same" as free oscillator. This is the simplest setup that cleanly reproduces particle creation phenomenon one sees in QFT (which makes sense, because QHO is really a 0+1D QFT).

— Jun 21, 2021 09:59PM

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Speed reading for comprehensive exam: I have finished Birrell/Davies' first five chapters, and now complementing it with the Part I of this book (up to the de Sitter QFT). The goal is to patch what is lacking in Birrell/Davies in terms of simpler examples.

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