Eugene D. Commins

Quantum Mechanics (eBook, ePUB)

An Experimentalist's Approach

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Eugene D. Commins takes an experimentalist's approach to quantum mechanics, preferring to use concrete physical explanations over formal, abstract descriptions to address the needs and interests of a diverse group of students. Keeping physics at the foreground and explaining difficult concepts in straightforward language, Commins examines the many modern developments in quantum physics, including Bell's inequalities, locality, photon polarization correlations, the stability of matter, Casimir forces, geometric phases, Aharonov-Bohm and Aharonov-Casher effects, magnetic monopoles, neutrino oscillations, neutron interferometry, the Higgs mechanism, and the electroweak standard model. The text is self-contained, covering the necessary background on atomic and molecular structure in addition to the traditional topics. Developed from the author's well-regarded course notes for his popular first-year graduate course at the University of California, Berkeley, instruction is supported by over 160 challenging problems to illustrate concepts and provide students with ample opportunity to test their knowledge and understanding.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316156872
• Artikelnr.: 49268047

Autorenporträt

Eugene D. Commins is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, where he has been a faculty member since 1960. His main area of research is experimental atomic physics. He is a member of the National Academy of Science and a Fellow of the AAAS, and he has been awarded several prizes for his teaching, including the AAPT's Ørsted Medal in 2005, its most prestigious award for notable contributions to physics teaching. He is the author (with Philip H. Bucksbaum) of the monograph Weak Interactions of Leptons and Quarks (Cambridge University Press, 1983).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Mathematical preliminaries
3. The rules of quantum mechanics
4. The connection between the fundamental rules and wave mechanics
5. Further illustrations of the rules of quantum mechanics
6. Further developments in one-dimensional wave mechanics
7. The theory of angular momentum
8. Wave mechanics in three dimensions: hydrogenic atoms
9. Time-independent approximations for bound state problems
10. Applications of static perturbation theory
11. Identical particles
12. Atomic structure
13. Molecules
14. The stability of matter
15. Photons
16. Interaction of non-relativistic charged particles and radiation
17. Further topics in perturbation theory
18. Scattering
19. Special relativity and quantum mechanics: the Klein-Gordon equation
20. The Dirac equation
21. Interaction of a relativistic spin ¿ particle with an external electromagnetic field
22. The Dirac field
23. Interaction between relativistic electrons, positrons, and photons
24. The quantum mechanics of weak interactions
25. The quantum measurement problem
Appendix A: useful inequalities for quantum mechanics
Appendix B: Bell's inequality
Appendix C: spin of the photon: vector spherical waves
Works cited
Bibliography
Index.