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Practical Quantum Mechanics: Modern Tools and Applications: Oxford Graduate Texts

Autor Efstratios Manousakis
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 noi 2015
Quantum mechanics forms the foundation of all modern physics, including atomic, nuclear, and molecular physics, the physics of the elementary particles, condensed matter physics. Modern astrophysics also relies heavily on quantum mechanics. Quantum theory is needed to understand the basis for new materials, new devices, the nature of light coming from stars, the laws which govern the atomic nucleus, and the physics of biological systems. As a result the subject of this book is a required course for most physics graduate students. While there are many books on the subject, this book targets specifically graduate students and it is written with modern advances in various fields in mind. Many examples treated in the various chapters as well as the emphasis of the presentation in the book are designed from the perspective of such problems. For example, the book begins by putting the Schrödinger equation on a spatial discrete lattice and the continuum limit is also discussed, inspired by Hamiltonian lattice gauge theories. The latter and advances in quantum simulations motivated the inclusion of the path integral formulation. This formulation is applied to the imaginary-time evolution operator to project the exact ground state of the harmonic oscillator as is done in quantum simulations. As an example of how to take advantage of symmetry in quantum mechanics, one-dimensional periodic potentials are discussed, inspired by condensed matter physics. Atoms and molecules are discussed within mean-field like treatment (Hartree-Fock) and how to go beyond it. Motivated by the recent intense activity in condensed matter and atomic physics to study the Hubbard model, the electron correlations in the hydrogen molecule are taken into account by solving the two-site Hubbard model analytically. Using the canonical Hamiltonian quantization of quantum electrodynamics, the photons emerge as the quanta of the normal modes, in the same way as the phonons emerge in the treatment of the normal modes of the coupled array of atoms. This is used later to treat the interaction of radiation with atomic matter.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198749349
ISBN-10: 0198749341
Pagini: 350
Dimensiuni: 186 x 248 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.82 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Oxford Graduate Texts

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

"The book teaches students how to approach and solve the types of quantum mechanical problems they will encounter throughout their careers. It will serve as an excellent text for a graduate level course."

Notă biografică

Efstratios Manousakis received his Ph. D. in Theoretical Physics, in 1985, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After a Post-Doctoral Research position at the Center for Theoretical Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1985-1987) and at the Supercomputer Computational Research Institute (1987-88), he joined the Florida State University physics faculty, where he is the Donald Robson Professor of Physics and holds the title of Distinguished Research Professor.