Uri Peskin (Haifa Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

Quantum Mechanics in Nanoscience and Engineering

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this self-contained and rigorous book, undergraduate students of physics, chemistry and engineering will find comprehensive coverage of their introductory quantum mechanics courses, and graduate students will find important discussion of the advanced tools and concepts necessary to describe real world phenomena in nanoscience and technology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 180mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1156g
• ISBN-13: 9781108834902
• ISBN-10: 1108834906
• Artikelnr.: 64223876

Autorenporträt

Uri Peskin is Professor of Chemistry and a member of the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute and the Helen Diller Quantum Center at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. His expertise lies in atomic and molecular physics, and scientific computing, with emphasis on quantum dynamics on the nanoscale. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley, and a visiting professor at Harvard and Freiburg universities. His research and teaching of quantum mechanics won him several awards, including the Yanai Prize for Excellence in Academic Education.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. 1. Motivation
2. The state of a system
3. Observables and operators
4. The Schrödinger equation
5. Energy quantization
6. Wave function penetration, tunneling and quantum wells
7. The continuous spectrum and scattering states
8. Mechanical vibrations and the harmonic oscillator model
9. Two-body rotation and angular momentum
10. The hydrogen-like atom
11. The postulates of quantum mechanics
12. Approximation methods
13. Many-electron systems
14. Many-atom systems
15. Quantum dynamics
16. Incoherent states
17. Quantum rate processes
18. Thermal rates in a bosonic environment
19. Open quantum systems
20. Open Many-Fermion systems
Index.