Synopses & Reviews
This course on quantum mechanics gives a fresh and modern approach to the field. It is a textbook on the principles of the theory, its mathematical framework and its first applications. It constantly refers to modern and practical developments, tunneling microscopy, quantum information, Bell inequalities, quantum cryptography, Bose-Einstein condensation and quantum astrophysics. The book also contains 92 exercises with their solutions. Supplementary material on extras.springer.com
Review
From the reviews of the first edition: "This textbook on quantum mechanics is the corrected second printing of the book, that first appeared in 2002. ... Great attention is paid to give some intuition of the phenomena ... . Connection to recent experiments and topics, objects of new research developments, as well as to the historical aspects, is made whenever possible. Also each chapter ends with a nice bibliography ... together with very interesting exercises ... .
Synopsis
Gives a fresh and modern approach to the field. It is a textbook on the principles of the theory, its mathematical framework and its first applications. It constantly refers to modern and practical developments, tunneling microscopy, quantum information, Bell inequalities, quantum cryptography, Bose-Einstein condensation and quantum astrophysics. The book also contains 92 exercises with their solutions.
Synopsis
Gives a fresh and modern approach to the field. It is a textbook on the principles of the theory, its mathematical framework and its first applications. It constantly refers to modern and practical developments, tunneling microscopy, quantum information, Bell inequalities, quantum cryptography, Bose-Einstein condensation and quantum astrophysics. The book also contains 92 exercises with their solutions.
Table of Contents
Quantum Phenomena.- The Wave Function.- Physical Quantities and Measurements.- Quantization of Energy in simple Systems.- Principles of Quantum Mechanics.- Two-state Systems.- Commutation of Observables.- The Stern-Gerlach Experiment of Approximation Methods.- Angular Momentum.- First Description of Atoms.- Spin 1/2 and Magnetic Resonance.- Addition of Angular Momenta.- Entangled States, EPR Paradox.- Lagrangian and Hamiltonian.- Identical Particles.- The Evolution of Systems.- Scattering Processes.- Qualitative Physics at a Macroscopic Scale.- The First Steps of Quantum Mechanics.- Appendices.- Solutions to Exercises.