Students and instructors alike will find this organized, detailed approach to quantum mechanics ideal for a two-semester graduate course. Topics are covered in logical order through concise, highly focused chapters, and over 200 exercises aid understanding of the subject. Password-protected solutions are available to instructors at www.cambridge.org/9780521877602.
Students and instructors alike will find this organized, detailed approach to quantum mechanics ideal for a two-semester graduate course. Topics are covered in logical order through concise, highly focused chapters, and over 200 exercises aid understanding of the subject. Password-protected solutions are available to instructors at www.cambridge.org/9780521877602.
Bipin R. Desai is a Professor of Physics at University of California, Riverside where he does research in elementary particle theory. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from University of California, Berkeley. He was a visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, UK, and has held research positions at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, and CEN, Saclay, France. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface 1. Basic formalism 2. Fundamental commutator and time evolution of state vectors and operators 3. Dynamical equations 4. Free particles 5. Particles with spin 1/2 6. Gauge invariance, angular momentum and spin 7. Stern-Gerlach experiments 8. Some exactly solvable bound state problems 9. Harmonic oscillator 10. Coherent states 11. Two-dimensional isotropic harmonic oscillator 12. Landau levels and quantum Hall effect 13. Two-level problems 14. Spin 1/2 systems in the presence of magnetic field 15. Oscillation and regeneration in neutrino and neutral K-mesons as two-level systems 16. Time-independent perturbation for bound states 17. Time-dependent perturbation 18. Interaction of charged particles and radiation in perturbation theory 19. Scattering in one dimension 20. Scattering in three dimensions - a formal theory 21. Partial wave amplitudes and phase shifts 22. Analytic structure of the S-matrix 23. Poles of the Green's function and composite systems 24. Approximation methods for bound states and scattering 25. Lagrangian method and Feynman path integrals 26. Rotations and angular momentum 27. Symmetry in quantum mechanics and symmetry groups 28. Addition of angular momenta 29. Irreducible tensors and Wigner-Eckart theorem 30. Entangled states 31. Special theory of relativity: Klein Gordon and Maxwell's equation 32. Klein Gordon and Maxwell's equation 33. Dirac equation 34. Dirac equation in the presence of spherically symmetric potentials 35. Dirac equation in a relativistically invariant form 36. Interaction of Dirac particle with electromagnetic field 37. Multiparticle systems and second quantization 38. Interactions of electrons and phonons in condensed matter 39. Superconductivity 40. Bose Einstein condensation and superfluidity 41. Lagrangian formulation of classical fields 42. Spontaneous symmetry breaking 43. Basic quantum electrodynamics and Feynman diagrams 44. Radiative corrections 45. Anomalous magnetic moment and Lamb shift Appendix References Index.
Preface 1. Basic formalism 2. Fundamental commutator and time evolution of state vectors and operators 3. Dynamical equations 4. Free particles 5. Particles with spin 1/2 6. Gauge invariance, angular momentum and spin 7. Stern-Gerlach experiments 8. Some exactly solvable bound state problems 9. Harmonic oscillator 10. Coherent states 11. Two-dimensional isotropic harmonic oscillator 12. Landau levels and quantum Hall effect 13. Two-level problems 14. Spin 1/2 systems in the presence of magnetic field 15. Oscillation and regeneration in neutrino and neutral K-mesons as two-level systems 16. Time-independent perturbation for bound states 17. Time-dependent perturbation 18. Interaction of charged particles and radiation in perturbation theory 19. Scattering in one dimension 20. Scattering in three dimensions - a formal theory 21. Partial wave amplitudes and phase shifts 22. Analytic structure of the S-matrix 23. Poles of the Green's function and composite systems 24. Approximation methods for bound states and scattering 25. Lagrangian method and Feynman path integrals 26. Rotations and angular momentum 27. Symmetry in quantum mechanics and symmetry groups 28. Addition of angular momenta 29. Irreducible tensors and Wigner-Eckart theorem 30. Entangled states 31. Special theory of relativity: Klein Gordon and Maxwell's equation 32. Klein Gordon and Maxwell's equation 33. Dirac equation 34. Dirac equation in the presence of spherically symmetric potentials 35. Dirac equation in a relativistically invariant form 36. Interaction of Dirac particle with electromagnetic field 37. Multiparticle systems and second quantization 38. Interactions of electrons and phonons in condensed matter 39. Superconductivity 40. Bose Einstein condensation and superfluidity 41. Lagrangian formulation of classical fields 42. Spontaneous symmetry breaking 43. Basic quantum electrodynamics and Feynman diagrams 44. Radiative corrections 45. Anomalous magnetic moment and Lamb shift Appendix References Index.
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