Quantum Principles and Particles

✍ Scribed by Wilcox, Walter

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 543
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

QUANTUM PRINCIPLESPerspective and PrinciplesPrelude to Quantum MechanicsStern-Gerlach Experiment Idealized Stern-Gerlach ResultsClassical Model AttemptsWave Functions for Two Physical-Outcome CaseProcess Diagrams, Operators, and Completeness Further Properties of Operators/ModulationOperator ReformulationOperator RotationBra-Ket Notation/Basis StatesTransition AmplitudesThree-Magnet Setup Example-CoherenceHermitian ConjugationUnitary OperatorsA Very Special OperatorMatrix RepresentationsMatrix Wave Function RecoveryExpectation ValuesWrap Up ProblemsFree Particles in One DimensionPhotoelectric. Read more...

Abstract: QUANTUM PRINCIPLESPerspective and PrinciplesPrelude to Quantum MechanicsStern-Gerlach Experiment Idealized Stern-Gerlach ResultsClassical Model AttemptsWave Functions for Two Physical-Outcome CaseProcess Diagrams, Operators, and Completeness Further Properties of Operators/ModulationOperator ReformulationOperator RotationBra-Ket Notation/Basis StatesTransition AmplitudesThree-Magnet Setup Example-CoherenceHermitian ConjugationUnitary OperatorsA Very Special OperatorMatrix RepresentationsMatrix Wave Function RecoveryExpectation ValuesWrap Up ProblemsFree Particles in One DimensionPhotoelectric

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Front Cover
Contents
Preface
Author
Chapter 1: Perspective and Principles
Chapter 2: Particle Motion in One Dimension
Chapter 3: Some One-Dimensional Solutions to the Schrödinger Equation
Chapter 4: Hilbert Space and Unitary Transformations
Chapter 5: Three Static Approximation Methods
Chapter 6: Generalization to Three Dimensions
Chapter 7: The Three-Dimensional Radial Equation
Chapter 8: Addition of Angular Momenta
Chapter 9: Spin and Statistics
Chapter 10: Quantum Particle Scattering
Chapter 11: Connecting to the Standard Model
Appendix A: Notation Comments and Comparisons Appendix B: Lattice ModelsAppendix C: 2-D Harmonic Oscillator Wave Function Normalization
Appendix D: Allowed Standard Model Interactions
Appendix E: The Ising Model and More
Appendix F: Weak Flavor Mixing
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