Quantum Mechanics: Foundations and Applications

✍ Scribed by Arno Bohm (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 610
• Series: Texts and Monographs in Physics
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Mathematical Preliminaries....Pages 1-42
Foundations of Quantum Mechanics—The Harmonic Oscillator....Pages 43-116
Energy Spectra of Some Molecules....Pages 117-158
Complete Systems of Commuting Observables....Pages 159-163
Addition of Angular Momenta—The Wigner-Eckart Theorem....Pages 164-204
Hydrogen Atom—The Quantum-Mechanical Kepler Problem....Pages 205-222
Alkali Atoms and the Schrödinger Equation of One-Electron Atoms....Pages 223-241
Perturbation Theory....Pages 242-252
Electron Spin....Pages 253-273
Indistinguishable Particles....Pages 274-281
Two-Electron Systems—The Helium Atom....Pages 282-309
Time Evolution....Pages 310-327
Some Fundamental Properties of Quantum Mechanics....Pages 328-355
Transitions in Quantum Physical Systems—Cross Section....Pages 356-386
Formal Scattering Theory and Other Theoretical Considerations....Pages 387-408
Elastic and Inelastic Scattering for Spherically Symmetric Interactions....Pages 409-424
Free and Exact Radial Wave Functions....Pages 425-451
Resonance Phenomena....Pages 452-504
Time Reversal....Pages 505-516
Resonances in Multichannel Systems....Pages 517-536
The Decay of Unstable Physical Systems....Pages 537-570
Epilogue....Pages 571-573
Back Matter....Pages 574-596

✦ Subjects

Quantum Physics;Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics