Physics Resources
Physics Video lectures:
MIT 8.286 (The Early Universe) - Prof Alan Guth
Stellar structure, evolution, collapse and supernovae Lectures by Bernhard Müller
Advanced General Relativity Lectures - Abhay Ashtekar
Mathematical Physics 01 - Carl Bender
Leonard Susskind - Modern Physics: Einstein's Theory
Three Lectures by Hans Bethe
Leonard Susskind's Lectures on Special Relativity
Leonard Susskind's Lectures on Modern Physics: Quantum Mechanics
A Geometrical Introduction to General Relativity - E. Ling
General Relativity Lecture 1 - Leonard Susskind
QFT Lectures
Lectures - Thanu Padmanabhan
Sebastiano Bernuzzi - 1/2 Introduction to Numerical Relativity
Sebastiano Bernuzzi - 2/2 Introduction to Numerical Relativity
Quantum Field Theory - Dr. Prasanta Tripathy
Lectures by Prof Ashoke Sen (various topics)
Conformal Field Theory (2023) - by Prof. Shiraz Minwalla
Short Master course - Introduction to Topological Fluid Dynamics
Conformal Field Theory Lectures (PSI 2014/2015 Jaume Gomis, Pedro Vieira and Freddy Cachazo)
Thanu Padmanabhan Action in Physics Lecture 1 - IISER Mohali
Thanu Padmanabhan Action in Physics Lecture 2 - IISER Mohali
Thanu Padmanabhan Action in Physics Lecture 3 - IISER Mohali
Thanu Padmanabhan Action in Physics Lecture 4 - IISER Mohali
Gravitational Algebras and Generalized Entropy Minicourse
Dr. Ashoke Sen GR Lectures
Quantum field theory - Tobias Osborne | Lecture Notes
Action in Quantum and Classical Physics - Lecture 1
Action in Quantum and Classical Physics - Lecture 2
Action in Quantum and Classical Physics - Lecture 3
Action in Quantum and Classical Physics - Lecture 4
String theory Ashoke Sen Lecture 1
String theory Ashoke Sen Lecture 2
String theory Ashoke Sen Lecture 3
String theory Ashoke Sen Lecture 4
String theory Ashoke Sen Lecture 5
String theory Ashoke Sen Lecture 6
String theory Ashoke Sen Lecture 7
Ashoke Sen GR Lecture Series
Oxford Physics B2: Group Theory & Special Relativity
Core - Quantum Physics - Prof V. Balakrishnan
High Energy Theory Group
Quantum Field Theory by Sidney Coleman (1975)
Lectures on Riemannian Geometry by Dr. Somnath Basu
Quantum Field Theory - David Tong
Classical Field Theory
Introduction to Topological Fluid Dynamics
Walter Lewin Lectures on Physics (MIT)
General Relativity
Lecture Series - Advanced General Relativity: A Centennial Tribute to Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri
Quantum Field Theory II
Advanced school on asymptotically flat spacetime and celestial holography
Differential geometry and topology in physics - Satoshi Nawata
Advanced General Relativity Lectures by Prof. Abhay Ashtekar
Lecture Collection | Classical Mechanics (Fall 2011) by Leonard Susskind
GR Lectures by Prof Thanu Padmanabhan (IUCAA Library)
Advanced school on asymptotically flat spacetime and celestial holography
Physics academic resources:
John Peacock's General Relativity
Prof Desai's Elementary Particle Physics (Autumn 2019) - Part 2
Sean Carroll's Introduction to Cosmology (Physics 371)
AMATH875/PHYS786 General Relativity for Cosmology
The Early Universe : Alan Guth
CS 498QC: Introduction to Quantum Computing
Lecture Notes for 8.370/18.435 Quantum Computation from Fall 2022 Peter Shor
Physics 253: Quantum Field Theory Lectures by Sidney R. Coleman
PHYS 215A: Quantum Field Theory
Particle physics lectures
CSC 801 - Quantum Computing reading
8.962 General Relativity
8.323 Relativistic Quantum Field Theory I
3.020: Thermodynamics of Materials
MA3431 Classical Field Theory Course
8.04 Quantum Physics I
Differential Geometry for physics
David Tong: Lectures on Theoretical Physics
Physics 219/Computer Science 219 Quantum Computation - Preskill
8.962 General Relativity
Quantum Physics (UCSD Physics 130)
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical PhysicsMathematics Examples, Lecture Notes and Specimen Exam Questions and Natural Sciences Tripos Mathematics examples
Quantum Field Theory
CSE 599d - Quantum Computing
Ay 127 Webpage - Winter 2017
GRQFT Lectures
Cosmology Lectures
cosmo-correlators - Daniel Baumann & Austin Joyce
PHY519 Applications of General Relativity
John Peacock Physics courses
General Relativity - Leonard Susskind
Applications of Classical Physics - Roger D. Blandford and Kip S. Thorne
Andrew Larkoski
PHYS771 Quantum Computing Since Democritus
James Schombert Lectures
A student's guide to Mathematics of Astronomy
8.821 String Theory and Holographic Duality
Tatsu Takeuchi's Special Relativity Lectures
8.06 Quantum Physics III
University of Waterloo General Relativity for Cosmology (AMATH875/PHYS786)
Other Physics Links:
Feynman Lectures on the Strong Interactions
Physics pages
Galileo and Einstein Lectures
Physics Travel Guide
Principle of Least Action
My Quantum Information Science II Lecture Notes - Scott Aaronson
Advanced General Relativity 2023 - ICTS (Sunil Mukhi)
Cosmology Lecture Notes
Physics textbooks that are free online:
Feynman's Lectures on Physics - Feynman, Leighton and Sands
The Feynman Lectures on Physics Audio Collection
Spacetime Physics, Second Edition - Edwin F. Taylor and John Archibald Wheeler
Exploring Black Holes, Second Edition - Edwin F. Taylor, John Archibald Wheeler, and Edmund Bertschinger
Physics pedagogical papers from arxiv:
General relativity in a nutshell I https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08612
Lectures on Quantum Field Theory https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0204014
Lecture notes on quantum computing https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08445
Quantum Picturalism: Learning Quantum Theory in High School https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03653
Higher geometry in physics https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07308
Introduction to Superstring Theory https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9709062
Basic ZX-calculus for students and professionals https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.03163
Learn Physics by Programming in Haskell https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.4880
Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.0340
Basic Quantum Algorithms https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.10574
Quantum computing 40 years later https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10522
Elements of Geometric Quantization and Applications to Fields and Fluids https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06407
Understanding Quaternions and the Dirac Belt Trick https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.1778
Feynman Lectures on the Strong Interactions https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08594
Lecture Notes on General Relativity https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9712019 - Sean M. Carroll
Introduction to Non-perturbative String Theory https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9708130
The role of quantum information in thermodynamics --- a topical review https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.07835
One hundred years of General Relativity: Summary, Status and Prospects https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.06672 - T. Padmanabhan
Non-standard Models and the Sociology of Cosmology https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.6324
PRyMordial: The First Three Minutes, Within and Beyond the Standard Model https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.07061
A brief tutorial on information theory https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16556
Teaching quantum information science to high-school and early undergraduate students https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.07874
Quantum Algorithm Implementations for Beginners https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03719
QCD at 50: Golden Anniversary, Golden Insights, Golden Opportunities https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06038
Notes on Gravitational Physics https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09826
Landau's Theoretical Minimum, Landau's Seminar, ITEP in the Beginning of the 1950's https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0204295v1
Feynman Integrals https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03593
General relativity in a nutshell II https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12219
General relativity in a nutshell I https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08612
Exploring black holes https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01688
Chandrasekhar limit for beginners https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.08933
Three easy ways to the Hawking temperature https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.01360
Hawking for beginners: A dimensional analysis activity to perform in the classroom https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.11850
Stephen Hawking and the quantum black holes https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.12776
Five misconceptions about black holes https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.06006
"Black holes ain't so black": An introduction to the great discoveries of Stephen Hawking https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02010
The Hawking temperature, the uncertainty principle and quantum black holes https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05121
Einstein ring: Weighing a star with light https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.00001
Mathematical relativity https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02855
Notes from Sidney Coleman's Physics 253a https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.5013
Classical Physics: Spacetime and Fields https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.0334
Astronomy as a Field: A Guide for Aspiring Astrophysicists https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04041
Interplay between Yukawa and Tomonaga in the Birth of Mesons https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.4355
Kindergarten Quantum Mechanics https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0510032
Kindergarden quantum mechanics graduates (...or how I learned to stop gluing LEGO together and love the ZX-calculus) https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.10984
Advanced General Relativity Notes https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.02506
Quantum Computing: Lecture Notes https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.09415
Why now is the right time to study quantum computing https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.00011
An introduction to the mechanics of black holes https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0611129
Advanced Lectures on General Relativity https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07064
Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.0340
Dynamics of the Universe in Problems https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.0382
Lectures on Mathematical Cosmology https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0407095
How the Saha Ionization Equation Was Discovered https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.10898
The Road to Precision Cosmology https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04741
Lectures on the Cosmological Constant Problem https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.05296
Basic Celestial Mechanics https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.00915
The Raychaudhuri equations: a brief review https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0611123
Singularity: Raychaudhuri Equation once again https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0702095
Derivation of the Raychaudhuri Equation https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0511123
Comments on "Derivation of the Raychaudhuri Equation" by Dadhich https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0512006
Calculation of the total 10-th order QED contribution to the lepton magnetic moments https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.00649
Aspects of confinement within non-Abelian gauge theories https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06118
The Cosmological Constant https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0004075
Cosmology and Brane Worlds: A Review https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0303095
Particle Physics: a crash course for Mathematicians https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08100
Quantum Physics without the Physics https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.03865
Lecture Notes: Programming Quantum Computers https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02051
Lecture Notes on Quantum Algorithms for Scientific Computation https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08309
Lectures on Introduction to Quantum Field Theory https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.02243
Lecture notes on quantum computing https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08445
Quantum Information Theory -- Lecture Notes https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.12442
From Computing to Quantum Mechanics: Accessible and Hands-On Quantum Computing Education for High School Students https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17485
The information paradox: A pedagogical introduction https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.1038
The fuzzball proposal for black holes: an elementary review https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0502050
Physics papers (arxiv):
A time varying speed of light as a solution to cosmological puzzles https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9811018
The physicists philosophy of physics - P.J.E Peebles https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.16506
200 Years of the Navier-Stokes Equation https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13669
On the thermodynamic aspects of gravity https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10975
Colloquium: A Century of Noether's Theorem https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01989
Is it time to rethink quantum gravity? https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.12221
General relativistic stochastic thermodynamics https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04025
150 years of relativity and gravitation https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.15042
Big Steve and the State of the Universe https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05111
Do Black Holes have Singularities? https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00841
The Hawking temperature of dynamical black holes via conformal transformations https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.03655
The Dynamics of General Relativity https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0405109
Memristors for the Curious Outsiders https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.03389
Gravitational Lensing by Spinning Black Holes in Astrophysics, and in the Movie Interstellar https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03808
A Mini-Introduction To Information Theory https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.11965
Colloquium: A Century of Noether's Theorem https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01989
On the Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0785
Newton vs the machine: solving the chaotic three-body problem using deep neural networks https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.07291
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis: 2015 https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.01076
Understanding BBN: the physics and its history https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.14254
Distribution function of the Atoms of Spacetime and the Nature of Gravity https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.06286
Regular Black Holes From Pure Gravity https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04827
Gravity as a topological gauge theory https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05284
Kerr Black Holes From Massive Higher-Spin Gauge Symmetry https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.06120
The Atoms Of Space, Gravity and the Cosmological Constant https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.08658
Do We Really Understand the Cosmos? https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.03505
General Relativity from a Thermodynamic Perspective https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.3253
Existence of Life in 2 + 1 Dimensions https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05336
A superradiant black hole rocket https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.05774
Tabletop experiments for quantum gravity: a user's manual https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11494
Cosmic Inflation: Background dynamics, Quantum fluctuations and Reheating https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10606
Complexity-constrained quantum thermodynamics https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04828
On the Development of the Concept of the Weak Cosmic Censorship Conjecture in General Relativity https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01305
Relativistic and nonrelativistic Landau levels for Dirac fermions in the cosmic string spacetime in the context of rainbow gravity https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01366
Raychaudhuri equation and the dynamics of cosmic evolution https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17800
The Quantum Model of Spinning Black Holes https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14893
Primordial Black Holes as a dark matter candidate -- a brief overview https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15211
An overview of field theories of gravity https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16163
Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.0340v3
The Cosmological Constant Problems (Talk given at Dark Matter 2000, February, 2000) https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0005265
Of Light and Shadows: Raychaudhuri's equation, the Big Bang and Black Holes https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.14988
The Physics of Quantum Information https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.08064
Gravity and the Quantum https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0410054
Thermodynamical Topology of Quantum BTZ Black Hole https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14167
Is it time to rethink quantum gravity? https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.12221
Light Rays, Singularities, and All That https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.03928
Status of Dark Matter in the Universe https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.01840
MIP*=RE https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04383
Quantum nonlocality, and the end of classical space-time https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.06022
Thermodynamical cost of some interpretations of quantum theory https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03641
Quantum Theory From Five Reasonable Axioms https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0101012
Paradoxes of cosmological physics in the beginning of the 21-st century https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.01919
Constructor Theory of Information https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.5563
Mass of the universe in a black hole https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.5019
Large Number Hypothesis: A Review https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.1836
Computational solution to quantum foundational problems http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.7686
Information Preservation and Weather Forecasting for Black Holes http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5761
The 1965 Penrose singularity theorem https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5226
Quantum theory based on real numbers can be experimentally falsified https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.10873
Black hole hair: twenty–five years after https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9605059
Experimental tests of Bell’s inequalities: A first-hand account by Alain Aspect https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04737
Faster Than Light? https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.1614
Black Hole Horizons and their Mechanics https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08729
How does information emerge from a black hole? https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.00374
Graviton mass due to dark energy as a superconducting medium: theoretical and phenomenological aspects https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03872
A Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9903047
Flux compactifications in string theory: a comprehensive review https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0509003
Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Prime Factorization and Discrete Logarithms on a Quantum Computer https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9508027
The Case for LambdaCDM https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9703161
Heisenberg's original derivation of the uncertainty principle and its universally valid reformulations https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.02010
Relativistic modeling of cosmological structures with Bianchi IX spacetimes https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05810
Some inflationary models under the light of Planck 2018 results https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04683
Energy-momentum Tensor: Noether vs Hilbert https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17457
General Relativity: New insights from a Geometric Algebra approach https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19682
Black Holes and Beyond https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.0776
Time problem in primordial perturbations https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06887
Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spacetimes from the perspective of geometric algebra https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16680
Physics memoirs and history from arxiv:
Stephen William Hawking: A Biographical Memoir https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03185
John Archibald Wheeler: A Biographical Memoir https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.06623
Memories of a Theoretical Physicist https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.09093
The Life and Science of Thanu Padmanabhan https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.03208
Memories of Julian Schwinger https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.1410
Joseph Polchinski: A Biographical Memoir https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02371
Ya. B. Zeldovich (1914-1987): Chemist, Nuclear Physicist, Cosmologist https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.1537
The art of science: interview with Professor John Archibald Wheeler https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.4532
Speeches by V. F. Weisskopf, J. H. Van Vleck, I. I. Rabi, M. Hamermesh, B. T. Feld, R. P. Feynman, and D. Saxon, given in honor of Julian Schwinger at his 60th birthday https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.08879
Julian Schwinger: A Centennial Celebration at Harvard https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04123
My Years with Julian Schwinger: From Source Theory through Sonoluminescence https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.01981
Julian Schwinger--Recollections from many decades https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10814
Reminiscences of Julian Schwinger: Late Harvard, Early UCLA Years (1968-1981) https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.00711
Julian Schwinger (1918-1994) https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0606153
In Memory of Julian Schwinger https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0303078
Moments with Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.4825
Memories of Abdus Salam and the early days of supersymmetry https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13453
Autobiographical Notes of a Physicist https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04711
The Legacy of Hideki Yukawa, Sin-itiro Tomonaga, and Shoichi Sakata: Some Aspects from their Archives https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.6362
Was Einstein a Lone Genius? https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04612
C. V. Vishveshwara (Vishu) On The Black Hole Trek https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11503
Understanding General Relativity after 100 years: A matter of perspective https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.02138
General Relativity in Post Independence India https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.02241
Landau's Theoretical Minimum, Landau's Seminar, ITEP in the Beginning of the 1950's http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0204295v1
How Einstein Got His Field Equations https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.05752
Bosons, Fermions, Spin, Gravity, and the Spin-Statistics Connection https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07656
Resurfaced 1964 VRT video interview of Georges Lemaître https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07198
The Early Days of Quantum Computation https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.09964
C.V. Raman as a Science Communicator: A Historical Perspective https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04773
Einstein and Hilbert: The Creation of General Relativity https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0504179
Murray Gell-Mann, A Short Appreciation https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.08787
The Science of Murray Gell-Mann https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.07354
The Science and Legacy of Richard Phillips Feynman https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.07409
Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0503235
Understanding Heisenberg's 'Magical' Paper of July 1925: a New Look at the Calculational Details https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0404009
Miscellaneous:
How to be a good Theoretical Physicist - Gerard 't Hooft