Quantum Mechanic For Engineering
Materials Science and Applied Physics
Published on 1. March 1994
Book
Hardback
672 pages
978-0-13-747098-3 (ISBN)
Description
For Quantum Mechanics courses in departments of electrical engineering, materials science, and physics.
This book is designed to meet the changing quantum mechanics needs of general and applied physicists in such areas as solid state research, quantum electronics, materials science, etc. It recognizes that these needs go significantly beyond most elementary texts, and at the same time have become sufficiently distinct from the traditional advanced treatment of quantum mechanics.
This book is designed to meet the changing quantum mechanics needs of general and applied physicists in such areas as solid state research, quantum electronics, materials science, etc. It recognizes that these needs go significantly beyond most elementary texts, and at the same time have become sufficiently distinct from the traditional advanced treatment of quantum mechanics.
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Content
1. Wave-Particle Duality and Schroedinger Equation.
2. Introduction to Bound States.
3. Rotationally Invariant Potentials: Hydrogen Atom and Beyond.
4. Wave Packets and Uncertainty Relations.
5. Scattering by Simple Barriers.
6. WKB Approximations.
7. Expectation Values and Operators.
8. Electrons in a Magnetic Field.
9. Beyond Hermitian Operators.
10. Harmonic Oscillator: Full Operator Treatment.
11. Composite Systems.
12. Variational Principle.
13. Expansion Principle and Matrix Formulation.
14. Perturbation Theory, I: "Degenerate" Perturbation Theory.
15. Perturbation Theory, II: "Non-Degenerate" Perturbation Theory.
16. Symmetry.
17. Electrons in Periodic Crystal Potentials.
18. Rotational Invariance and Angular Momentum.
19. Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory.
20. Elements of Field Quantization.
21. Electron Spin.
22. Indistinguishable Particles: Fermions and Bosons.
Appendices: Dirac ...d-Function. Poisson-Distributed Events. Spherical Harmonics. Hydrogen Radial Eigenfunctions. Fourier Integral. Construction of Two Group Character Tables. Selected General References. Fundamental Constants.
Index.
2. Introduction to Bound States.
3. Rotationally Invariant Potentials: Hydrogen Atom and Beyond.
4. Wave Packets and Uncertainty Relations.
5. Scattering by Simple Barriers.
6. WKB Approximations.
7. Expectation Values and Operators.
8. Electrons in a Magnetic Field.
9. Beyond Hermitian Operators.
10. Harmonic Oscillator: Full Operator Treatment.
11. Composite Systems.
12. Variational Principle.
13. Expansion Principle and Matrix Formulation.
14. Perturbation Theory, I: "Degenerate" Perturbation Theory.
15. Perturbation Theory, II: "Non-Degenerate" Perturbation Theory.
16. Symmetry.
17. Electrons in Periodic Crystal Potentials.
18. Rotational Invariance and Angular Momentum.
19. Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory.
20. Elements of Field Quantization.
21. Electron Spin.
22. Indistinguishable Particles: Fermions and Bosons.
Appendices: Dirac ...d-Function. Poisson-Distributed Events. Spherical Harmonics. Hydrogen Radial Eigenfunctions. Fourier Integral. Construction of Two Group Character Tables. Selected General References. Fundamental Constants.
Index.