Advanced Visual Quantum Mechanics

✍ Scribed by Bernd Thaller (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 518
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Advanced Visual Quantum Mechanics is a systematic effort to investigate and to teach quantum mechanics with the aid of computer-generated animations. It is a self-contained textbook that combines selected topics from atomic physics (spherical symmetry, the hydrogen atom, and particles with spin) with an introduction to quantum information theory (qubits, EPR paradox, teleportation, quantum computers). It explores relativistic quantum mechanics and the strange behavior of Dirac equation solutions. A series of appendices covers important topics from perturbation and scattering theory. The book places an emphasis on ideas and concepts, with a fair to moderate amount of mathematical rigor.
Though this book stands alone, it can also be paired with Thaller Visual Quantum Mechanics to form a comprehensive course in quantum mechanics. The software for the first book earned the European Academic Software Award 2000 for outstanding innovation in its field.

✦ Table of Contents

Spherical Symmetry....Pages 1-56
Coulomb Problem....Pages 57-111
Particles with Spin....Pages 113-156
Qubits....Pages 157-209
Composite Systems....Pages 211-269
Quantum Information Theory....Pages 271-322
Relativistic Systems in One Dimension....Pages 323-375
The Dirac Equation....Pages 377-432

✦ Subjects

Quantum Physics;Physics, general;Mathematical and Computational Physics;Numerical and Computational Methods;Quantum Computing, Information and Physics