Shelf & Stack

What I'm Reading

Two lists — what I read for pleasure, and what I read for physics. Updated when I remember to.

The Master
and
Margarita
Bulgakov
Currently Reading
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
"Cowardice is the greatest sin." — Haven't met a book that felt this simultaneously absurd and devastating. The Devil visits Soviet Moscow and chaos ensues. Reading it slowly.
Russian Lit Satire Magic Realism
Progress 62%
Also Reading
In Progress
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Richard P. Feynman
Re-reading for the third time. Always find something new.
In Progress
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
Deeply uncomfortable. Exactly what good fiction should do.
Up Next
Queue
The Stranger
Albert Camus
Long overdue. Everyone keeps quoting it at me.
Queue
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Started twice. Third time will be it.
Queue
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas Hofstadter
Has been on my list since I was 16. Someday.
Recently Finished
Finished
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
The most quietly devastating book I have ever read.
Finished
The Glass Bead Game
Hermann Hesse
About a fictional scholar. Felt like reading about myself in another universe.
Finished
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
Richard Feynman
The best popular physics book. No contest.
Currently Working Through
Quasiclassical theory of superconductivity: A multiple-interface geometry
Nikolai Kopnin
Journal of Low Temperature Physics · 2001
Dense but foundational. Working through the Usadel equations section carefully — directly relevant to my SC–FM heterostructure work with Prof. Singh. The Green's function formalism is clicking into place slowly.
Papers
Topological superconductors on superstring worldsheets
Ioannis Florakis, Iñaki García-Etxebarria, Daniel Lüst, Diego Regalado
SciPost Phys. · 2020
Reading Top. SC
Majorana fermions and a topological phase transition in semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures
Lutchyn, Sau, Das Sarma
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105 · 2010
Read Majorana
Unpaired Majorana fermions in quantum wires
Alexei Kitaev
Physics-Uspekhi 44 · 2001
Read Kitaev Chain
K-theory and reality
Michael Atiyah
Quarterly Journal of Mathematics · 1966
Queue K-Theory
Periodic table for topological insulators and superconductors
Alexei Kitaev
AIP Conference Proceedings · 2009
Queue Classification
Spin-triplet superconductivity in ferromagnet/superconductor heterostructures
Bergeret, Volkov, Efetov
Rev. Mod. Phys. 77 · 2005
Reading SC-FM
Colloquium: Andreev reflection and Klein tunneling in graphene
C.W.J. Beenakker
Rev. Mod. Phys. 80 · 2008
Queue Andreev
Textbooks & References
Introduction to Many-Body Physics
Piers Coleman
Reading
Topological Insulators and Topological Superconductors
Bernevig & Hughes
Reference
Quantum Theory of Solids
Charles Kittel
Queue
Methods of Quantum Field Theory in Statistical Physics
Abrikosov, Gorkov, Dzyaloshinski
Queue
Superconductivity, Superfluidity and Condensates
Annett
Reference