Quantum mechanics: a modern and concise introductory course

✍ Scribed by Daniel Bes (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 321
• Series: Graduate texts in physics
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Starting from basic principles, the book covers a wide variety of topics, ranging from Heisenberg, Schroedinger, second quantization, density matrix and path integral formulations of quantum mechanics, to applications that are (or will be) corner stones of present and future technologies. The emphasis is on spin waves, quantum information, recent tests of quantum physics and decoherence. The book provides a large amount of information without unbalancing the flow of the main ideas by laborious detail.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Introduction....Pages 1-3
The Principles of Quantum Mechanics....Pages 5-32
The Heisenberg Realization of Quantum Mechanics....Pages 33-46
The Schrödinger Realization of Quantum Mechanics....Pages 47-72
Motion in Angular Subspace....Pages 73-91
Three-Dimensional Hamiltonian Problems....Pages 93-108
Many-Body Problems....Pages 109-140
Approximate Solutions to Quantum Problems....Pages 141-159
Time Dependence in Quantum Mechanics....Pages 161-182
Broken Symmetries....Pages 183-205
Eigenvectors of the Position Operator Path Integral Formulation....Pages 207-217
Entanglement and Experimental Tests of Quantum Mechanics....Pages 219-231
Quantum Information....Pages 233-244
Interpretations of Measurements. Decoherence. Density Matrix....Pages 245-258
A Brief History of Quantum Mechanics....Pages 259-272
Back Matter....Pages 273-297

✦ Subjects

Quantum Physics;Quantum Field Theories, String Theory