Advanced Quantum Mechanics: A Practical Guide
Cambridge University Press, 1/3/2013
EAN 9780521761505, ISBN10: 0521761506
Hardcover, 368 pages, 25.3 x 19.2 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
An accessible introduction to advanced quantum theory, this graduate-level textbook focuses on its practical applications rather than mathematical technicalities. It treats real-life examples, from topics ranging from quantum transport to nanotechnology, to equip students with a toolbox of theoretical techniques. Beginning with second quantization, the authors illustrate its use with different condensed matter physics examples. They then explain how to quantize classical fields, with a focus on the electromagnetic field, taking students from Maxwell's equations to photons, coherent states and absorption and emission of photons. Following this is a unique master-level presentation on dissipative quantum mechanics, before the textbook concludes with a short introduction to relativistic quantum mechanics, covering the Dirac equation and a relativistic second quantization formalism. The textbook includes 70 end-of-chapter problems. Solutions to some problems are given at the end of the chapter and full solutions to all problems are available for instructors at www.cambridge.org/9780521761505.
Part I. Second Quantization
1. Elementary quantum mechanics
2. Identical particles
3. Second quantization
Part II. Examples
4. Magnetism
5. Superconductivity
6. Superfluidity
Part III. Fields and Radiation
7. Classical fields
8. Quantization of fields
9. Radiation and matter
10. Coherent states
Part IV. Dissipative Quantum Mechanics
11. Dissipative quantum mechanics
12. Transitions and dissipation
Part V. Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
13. Relativistic quantum mechanics
Index.