The ultimate modern textbook on Quantum Theory, this graduate-level and self-contained text is also a reference and research work which provides background for research in this discipline, covering important recent developments and most aspects of the theory with fairly detailed presentations. In addition to traditional topics, it includes: selective measurements, Wigner's Theorem of symmetry transformations, generators of quantum transformations, supersymmetry, details on the spectra of Hamiltonians and stability of quantum systems, Bose-Fermi oscillators, coherent states, hyperfine structure of the H-atom for any angular momentum, the non-relativistic Lamb shift, anomalous magnetic moment of the electron, Ramsey oscillatory fields methods, measurement, interference and the role of the environment, the AB effect, geometric phases (including the nonadiabatic and noncyclic), Schrödinger's cat and quantum decoherence, quantum teleportation and cryptography, quantum dynamics of the Stern-Gerlach effect, Green functions, path integrals, including constrained dynamics, quantum dynamical principle and variations, systematics of multi-electron atoms, stability of matter, collapse of "bosonic matter" and the role of spin, intricacies of scattering, quantum description of relativistic particles for any spin and mass, spinors, helicity, the Spin & Statistics Theorem. In addition it contains numerous problems, some of which are challenging enough for research. Audience: Instructors and graduate students in Physics, researchers and professional scientists in Theoretical Physics. Read more...
Abstract:
This graduate-level textbook on quantum theory covers important recent developments and most aspects of the theory with detailed presentations. It is also a reference and research work which provides background for research in this discipline. Read more...
Author(s): Manoukian, Edward B
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 1011
City: Dordrecht
Tags: Quantum theory.;Théorie quantique.;SCIENCE -- Physics -- Quantum Theory.;Physique.
Content: Fundamentals --
Symmetries and Transformations --
Uncertainties, Localization, Stability and Decay of Quantum Systems --
Spectra of Hamiltonians --
Angular Momentum Gymnastics --
Intricacies of Harmonic Oscillators --
Intricacies of the Hydrogen Atom --
Quantum Physics of Spin 1/2 and Two-Level Systems
Quantum Predictions Using Such Systems --
Green Functions --
Path Integrals --
The Quantum Dynamical Principle --
Approximating Quantum Systems --
Multi-Electron Atoms: Beyond the Thomas-Fermi Atom --
Quantum Physics and the Stability of Matter --
Quantum Scattering --
Quantum Description of Relativistic Particles.
