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Mastering Quantum Mechanics: Essentials, Theory, and Applications


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Table of Contents:
Preface xv I Essentials 1 1 Key Features of Quantum Mechanics 3 2 Light, Particles, and Waves 31 3 Schrodinger Equation 67 4 Wave Packets, Uncertainty, and Momentum Space 93 5 Expectation Values and Hermitian Operators 111 6 Stationary States I: Special Potentials 133 7 Stationary States II: General Features 171 8 Stationary States III: Scattering 211 9 Harmonic Oscillator 233 10 Angular Momentum and Central Potentials 255 11 Hydrogen Atom 281 12 The Simplest Quantum System: Spin One-Half 307 II Theory 335 13 Vector Spaces and Operators 337 14 Inner Products, Adjoints, and Bra-kets 381 15 Uncertainty Principle and Compatible Operators 427 16 Pictures of Quantum Mechanics 459 17 Dynamics of Quantum Systems 481 18 Multiparticle States and Tensor Products 519 19  Angular Momentum and Central Potentials: Part II 555 20 Addition of Angular Momentum 599 21 Identical Particles 639 III Applications 685 22 Density Matrix and Decoherence 687 23 Quantum Computation 737 24 Charged Particles in Electromagnetic Fields 761 25 Time-Independent Perturbation Theory 793 26 WKB and Semiclassical Approximation 849 27 Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory 891 28 Adiabatic Approximation 953 29 Scattering in One Dimension 999 30 Scattering in Three Dimensions 1025 References 1057 Index 1065

About the Author :
Barton Zwiebach is Professor of Physics at MIT. His research is in theoretical particle physics and string theory, and he is the author of the undergraduate textbook A First Course in String Theory. The creator and lead instructor for the popular MITx "Mastering Quantum Mechanics" course, he taught undergraduate quantum mechanics at MIT from 2010 to 2020.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780262046138
  • Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 1200
  • Sub Title: Essentials, Theory, and Applications
  • ISBN-10: 026204613X
  • Publisher Date: 12 Apr 2022
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 203 mm

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