Quantum Mechanics

This introductory course on quantum mechanics is the basic lecture that precedes and completes the author's second book Advanced Quantum Mechanics. This new edition is up-to-date and has been revised.

This introductory course on quantum mechanics is the basic lecture which precedes and completes the author's second book Advanced Quantum Mechanics. The new edition is again up-to-date and has been revised. The book meets the students' needs by giving all mathematical steps, worked examples with applications throughout the text, and many problems at the end of each chapter. It contains nonrelativistic quantum mechanics and a short treatment of the quantization of the radiation field. Besides the essentials, topics such as the theory of measurement, the Bell inequality, decoherence, entanglement and supersymmetric quantum mechanics are discussed. It includes helpful appendices on Green's functions, canonical and kinetic dynamical variables, and eigenfunctions.

Again up-to-date and revised This first book precedes the second course Advanced Quantum Mechanics Concise and well-thought introduction to the field Suitable for advanced undergraduates and beyond Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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This represents the introductory course which would precede and so complements the author's book on Advanced Quantum Mechanics. The new edition has been up-dated and thoroughly revised throughout and now includes many new or newly drawn figures which will facilitate an easier understanding of subtle topics. The book meets students' needs in providing detailed mathematical steps along the way, with worked examples and applications throughout the text, and many problems for the reader at the end of each chapter. It contains nonrelativistic quantum mechanics and a short treatment of the quantization of the radiation field. In addition to the essentials, topics such as the theory of measurement, the Bell inequality, decoherence, entanglement and supersymmetric quantum mechanics are discussed.

"Any student wishing to develop mathematical skills and deepen their understanding of the technical side of quantum theory will find Schwabl's Quantum Mechanics very helpful".

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Inhalt
Historical and Experimental Foundations.- The Wave Function and the Schrödinger Equation.- One-Dimensional Problems.- The Uncertainty Relation.- Angular Momentum.- The Central Potential I.- Motion in an Electromagnetic Field.- Operators, Matrices, State Vectors.- Spin.- Addition of Angular Momenta.- Approximation Methods for Stationary States.- Relativistic Corrections.- Several-Electron Atoms.- The Zeeman Effect and the Stark Effect.- Molecules.- Time Dependent Phenomena.- The Central Potential II.- Scattering Theory.- Supersymmetric Quantum Theory.- State and Measurement in Quantum Mechanics.