Quantum Mechanics in Nanoscience and Engineering

✍ Scribed by Uri Peskin

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 502
• Edition: New
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Quantum Mechanics in Nanoscience and Engineering covers both elementary and advanced quantum mechanics within a coherent and self-contained framework. Undergraduate students of physics, chemistry and engineering will find comprehensive coverage of their introductory quantum mechanics courses, and graduate students will gain an understanding of additional tools and concepts necessary to describe real world phenomena. Each topic presented is first motivated by an experimental technique, phenomenon or concept derived directly from the realm of nanoscience and technology. The machinery of quantum mechanics is described and reinforced through the perspective of nanoscale phenomena, and in this manner practical and fundamental questions are raised and answered. The main text remains fluent and accessible by leaving technical details and mathematical proofs to guided exercises. Introductory readers may overlook these exercises, while rigorous students can benefit from reading the guidance or solving the exercises in full to strengthen and consolidate their understanding of the material.

✦ Table of Contents

01.0_pp_i_i_Quantum_Mechanics_in_Nanoscience_and_Engineering
02.0_pp_ii_ii_Additional_material
03.0_pp_iii_iii_Quantum_Mechanics_in_Nanoscience_and_Engineering
04.0_pp_iv_iv_Copyright_page
05.0_pp_v_x_Contents
06.0_pp_xi_xiv_Preface_Who_Can_Benefit_from_Reading_This_Book
07.0_pp_1_4_Motivation
08.0_pp_5_9_The_State_of_a_System
09.0_pp_10_15_Observables_and_Operators
10.0_pp_16_30_The_Schroedinger_Equation
11.0_pp_31_45_Energy_Quantization
12.0_pp_46_60_Wave_Function_Penetration_Tunneling_and_Quantum_Wells
13.0_pp_61_73_The_Continuous_Spectrum_and_Scattering_States
14.0_pp_74_87_Mechanical_Vibrations_and_the_Harmonic_Oscillator_Model
15.0_pp_88_105_Two-Body_Rotation_and_Angular_Momentum
16.0_pp_106_121_The_Hydrogen-Like_Atom
17.0_pp_122_154_The_Postulates_of_Quantum_Mechanics
18.0_pp_155_199_Approximation_Methods
19.0_pp_200_236_Many-Electron_Systems
20.0_pp_237_285_Many-Atom_Systems
21.0_pp_286_319_Quantum_Dynamics
22.0_pp_320_333_Incoherent_States
23.0_pp_334_349_Quantum_Rate_Processes
24.0_pp_350_390_Thermal_Rates_in_a_Bosonic_Environment
25.0_pp_391_430_Open_Quantum_Systems
26.0_pp_431_472_Open_Many-Fermion_Systems
27.0_pp_473_476_Index