Quantum Mechanics II: A Second Course in Quantum Theory

✍ Scribed by Rubin H. Landau

• Publisher: Wiley-VCH
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 518
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Here is a readable and intuitive quantum mechanics text that covers scattering theory, relativistic quantum mechanics, and field theory. This expanded and updated Second Edition - with five new chapters - emphasizes the concrete and calculable over the abstract and pure, and helps turn students into researchers without diminishing their sense of wonder at physics and nature.

As a one-year graduate-level course, Quantum Mechanics II: A Second Course in Quantum Theory leads from quantum basics to basic field theory, and lays the foundation for research-oriented specialty courses. Used selectively, the material can be tailored to create a one-semester course in advanced topics. In either case, it addresses a broad audience of students in the physical sciences, as well as independent readers - whether advanced undergraduates or practicing scientists.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover Page
Title Page
ISBN 0471116084
PREFACE
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTENTS (with page links)
I SCATTERING AND INTEGRAL QUANTUM MECHANICS
1 SCATTERING
2 CURRENTS AND CROSS SECTIONS
3 PARTIAL-WAVE EXPANSIONS
4 SCATTERING APPLICATIONS: LENGTHS, RESONANCES, COULOMB
5 GREEN’S FUNCTIONS AND INTEGRAL QUANTUM MECHANICS
6 TRANSITION AND POTENTIAL MATRICES
7 FORMAL QUANTUM MECHANICS
8 THE ANGULAR MOMENTUM BASIS
9 SPIN THEORY
10 SPIN PHENOMENOLOGY AND IDENTICAL PARTICLES
11 PATH INTEGRALS AND LATTICE QUANTUM MECHANICS
12 APPLIED PATH INTEGRALS
II RELATIVISTIC QUANTUM MECHANICS
13 RELATIVISTIC WAVE EQUATIONS FOR SPINLESS PARTICLES
14 DIRAC EQUATION
15 COMPONENTS OF DIRAC WAVE FUNCTIONS
16 INTERACTIONS IN DIRAC THEORY
17 SCATTERING AND DIRAC INTEGRAL EQUATIONS
18 SOLVING EVEN RELATIVISTIC INTEGRAL EQUATIONS
III QUANTUM FIELDS
19 SECOND QUANTIZATION
20 QUANTIZED ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS
21 APPLICATIONS OF NONRELATIVISTIC QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS
22 INTERACTION OF PHOTONS WITH QUANTIZED MATTER, QED
23 THE BREIT-PAUL1 AND BOSON-EXCHANGE INTERACTIONS
24 WEAK FIELDS
25 WAVE EQUATIONS FROM FIELD THEORY
IV MANY-BODY THEORY
26 MANY-BODY PROBLEMS
27 STATISTICAL HELP WITH MANY-BODY PROBLEMS
28 PHONONS
29 FERMION PAIRING
APPENDIX A NATURAL UNITS AND PLANE WAVES
APPENDIX B DIRAC NOTATION AND REPRESENTATIONS
APPENDIX C FOUR-VECTORS AND LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONS
APPENDIX D THE DIRAC EQUATION
REFERENCES, INDEX
I SCATTERING AND INTEGRAL QUANTUM MECHANICS
1 SCATTERING
2 CURRENTS AND CROSS SECTIONS
3 PARTIAL-WAVE EXPANSIONS
4 SCATTERING APPLICATIONS: LENGTHS, RESONANCES, COULOMB
5 GREEN’S FUNCTIONS AND INTEGRAL QUANTUM MECHANICS
6 TRANSITION AND POTENTIAL MATRICES
7 FORMAL QUANTUM MECHANICS
8 THE ANGULAR MOMENTUM BASIS
9 SPIN THEORY
10 SPIN PHENOMENOLOGY AND IDENTICAL PARTICLES
11 PATH INTEGRALS AND LATTICE QUANTUM MECHANICS
12 APPLIED PATH INTEGRALS
II RELATIVISTIC QUANTUM MECHANICS
13 RELATIVISTIC WAVE EQUATIONS FOR SPINLESS PARTICLES
14 DIRAC EQUATION
15 COMPONENTS OF DIRAC WAVE FUNCTIONS
16 INTERACTIONS IN DIRAC THEORY
17 SCATTERING AND DIRAC INTEGRAL EQUATIONS
18 SOLVING EVEN RELATIVISTIC INTEGRAL EQUATIONS
III QUANTUM FIELDS
19 SECOND QUANTIZATION
20 QUANTIZED ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS
21 APPLICATIONS OF NONRELATIVISTIC QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS
22 INTERACTION OF PHOTONS WITH QUANTIZED MATTER, QED
23 THE BREIT-PAUL1 AND BOSON-EXCHANGE INTERACTIONS
24 WEAK FIELDS
25 WAVE EQUATIONS FROM FIELD THEORY
IV MANY-BODY THEORY
26 MANY-BODY PROBLEMS
27 STATISTICAL HELP WITH MANY-BODY PROBLEMS
28 PHONONS
29 FERMION PAIRING
APPENDIX A NATURAL UNITS AND PLANE WAVES
APPENDIX B DIRAC NOTATION AND REPRESENTATIONS
APPENDIX C FOUR-VECTORS AND LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONS
APPENDIX D THE DIRAC EQUATION
REFERENCES
INDEX
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