Ravinder R. Puri

Non-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is aimed at senior undergraduate and graduate students. Established mathematical techniques are used to simplify several complex calculations, and a wide range of topics including quantum computing and quantum information are covered in detail.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 184mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 884g
• ISBN-13: 9781107164369
• ISBN-10: 1107164362
• Artikelnr.: 47353986

Autorenporträt

Ravinder R. Puri is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar. He is serving as a Distinguished Guest Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (November 2009¿present) and earlier served as Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), UK (June¿December 1997). He has published more than one hundred papers in journals and conferences of national and international repute. His areas of research interest include theoretical quantum optics, foundations of quantum mechanics and quantum information processing.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. History of quantum mechanics
2. Vectors and operators
3. Finite dimensional spaces
4. Function space
5. Postulates of quantum mechanics
6. Density operator
7. Measurement postulate and paradoxes of quantum mechanics
8. Position and momentum representations
9. Schrödinger equation in one dimension
10. One-dimensional piecewise constant potentials
11. One-dimensional exactly solvable continuous potentials
12. Partially and completely periodic potentials
13. Harmonic oscillator
14. Three-dimensional central potentials
15. Symmetry in quantum mechanics
16. Quantum theory of angular momentum
17. Approximation methods
18. Entanglement and local hidden variable theory
Appendix A. Delta function
Appendix B. Second-order ordinary differential equations
Appendix C. Riccati equation
Appendix D. Some mathematical formulas
References
Index.