Quantum Principles and Particles, Second Edition

✍ Scribed by Walter Wilcox (Author)

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2019
• Leaves: 601
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This textbook offers a unique introduction to quantum mechanics progressing gradually from elementary quantum mechanics to aspects of particle physics. It presents the microscopic world by analysis of the simplest possible quantum mechanical system (spin 1/2). A special feature is the author’s use of visual aids known as process diagrams, which show how amplitudes for quantum mechanical processes are computed. The second edition includes a new chapter and problems on time-dependent processes, in addition to new material on quantum computing and improved illustrations.

Key Features:

• Provides a completely updated text with expanded contents.
• Includes a brand new chapter on time-dependent processes and expanded coverage of recent developments in particle physics.
• Emphasizes a visual approach employing process diagrams and utilizing new figures.
• Incorporates quantum information theory in a new appendix, with other helpful supplements on notation, lattice models, weak flavor mixing, and numerical simulations.

✦ Table of Contents

SECTION I QUANTUM PRINCIPLES

1 Perspective and Principles

2 Particle Motion in One Dimension

3 Some One-Dimensional Solutions to the Schrödinger Equation

4 Hilbert Space and Unitary Transformations

5 Three Static Approximation Methods

6 Generalization to Three Dimensions

SECTION II QUANTUM PARTICLES

7 The Three-Dimensional Radial Equation

8 Addition of Angular Momenta

9 Spin and Statistics

10 Quantum Particle Scattering

11 Connecting to the Standard Model

Appendices

A Notation Comments and Comparisons

B Lattice Models

C 2-D Harmonic Oscillator Wave Function Normalization

D Allowed Standard Model Interactions

E The Ising Model and More

F Weak Flavor Mixing