Lectures on quantum mechanics

Author(s)

• Weinberg, Steven

Bibliographic Information

Lectures on quantum mechanics

Steven Weinberg

Cambridge University Press, 2013

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg combines his exceptional physical insight with his gift for clear exposition to provide a concise introduction to modern quantum mechanics. Ideally suited to a one-year graduate course, this textbook is also a useful reference for researchers. Readers are introduced to the subject through a review of the history of quantum mechanics and an account of classic solutions of the Schroedinger equation, before quantum mechanics is developed in a modern Hilbert space approach. The textbook covers many topics not often found in other books on the subject, including alternatives to the Copenhagen interpretation, Bloch waves and band structure, the Wigner-Eckart theorem, magic numbers, isospin symmetry, the Dirac theory of constrained canonical systems, general scattering theory, the optical theorem, the 'in-in' formalism, the Berry phase, Landau levels, entanglement and quantum computing. Problems are included at the ends of chapters, with solutions available for instructors at www.cambridge.org/9781107028722.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Notation
• 1. Historical introduction
• 2. Particle states in a central potential
• 3. General principles of quantum mechanics
• 4. Spin
• 5. Approximations for energy eigenstates
• 6. Approximations for time-dependent problems
• 7. Potential scattering
• 8. General scattering theory
• 9. The canonical formalism
• 10. Charged particles in electromagnetic fields
• 11. The quantum theory of radiation
• 12. Entanglement
• Index.

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Details

• NCID: BB10920640
• ISBN:
  • 9781107028722
• LCCN: 2012030441
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge
• Pages/Volumes: xix, 358 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QC174.125
  • DC23 : 530.12
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Quantum theory