An Introduction to Advanced Quantum Physics
Published on 9. April 2010
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Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-470-68675-1 (ISBN)
Description
An Introduction to Advanced Quantum Physics presents important concepts from classical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, statistical physics, and quantum physics brought together to discuss the interaction of radiation and matter, selection rules, symmetries and conservation laws, scattering, relativistic quantum mechanics, apparent paradoxes, elementary quantum field theory, electromagnetic and weak interactions, and much more.
This book consists of two parts:
Part 1 comprises the material suitable for a second course in quantum physics and covers:
* Electromagnetic Radiation and Matter
* Scattering
* Symmetries and Conservation Laws
* Relativistic Quantum Physics
* Special Topics
Part 2 presents elementary quantum field theory and discusses:
* Second Quantization of Spin 1/2 and Spin 1 Fields
* Covariant Perturbation Theory and Applications
* Quantum Electrodynamics
Each chapter concludes with problems to challenge the students' understanding of the material.
This text is intended for graduate and ambitious undergraduate students in physics, material sciences, and related disciplines.
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"The material is intended for undergraduates who are planning to take up the study of elementary particle physics or condensed matter. The problem section given at the end of each chapter is a useful addition for a better understanding of the subject." (Zentralblatt MATH, 2011)More details
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Professor Hans Paar has been on the faculty of the University of California San Diego since 1986. He has taught Quantum Physics in all four quarters it is offered at the undergraduate level and has developed and taught the third and fourth quarter of this course (which corresponds to the content of the book) almost each of those 22 years. He has been vice-chair education in UCSD's Physics Department from 1992-1999 and again from 2008-present.
Professor Paar is an experimental particle-astrophysicist and has spent nearly 20 years in experimental high energy physics (particle physics by another name) and nearly three years in Cosmology (the Big-Bang and the particle physics of that era). I am an author on 938 publications.
Professor Paar is an experimental particle-astrophysicist and has spent nearly 20 years in experimental high energy physics (particle physics by another name) and nearly three years in Cosmology (the Big-Bang and the particle physics of that era). I am an author on 938 publications.
Content
Preface.
PART 1 Relativistic Quantum Physics.
1 Electromagnetic Radiation and Matter.
1.1 Hamiltonian and Vector Potential.
1.2 Second Quantization.
1.3 Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory.
1.4 Spontaneous Emission.
1.5 Blackbody Radiation.
1.6 Selection Rules.
2 Scattering.
2.1 Scattering Amplitude and Cross Section.
2.2 Born Approximation.
2.3 Photo-Electric Effect.
2.4 Photon Scattering.
3 Symmetries and Conservation Laws.
3.1 Symmetries and Conservation Laws.
3.2 Continuous Symmetry Operators.
3.3 Discrete Symmetry Operators.
3.4 Degeneracy.
4 Relativistic Quantum Physics.
4.1 Klein-Gordon Equation.
4.2 Dirac Equation.
4.3 Solutions of the Dirac Equation, Anti-Particles.
4.4 Spin, Non-Relativistic Limit and Magnetic Moment.
4.5 The Hydrogen Atom Re-Revisited.
5 Special Topics.
5.1 Introduction.
5.2 Measurements in Quantum Physics.
5.3 Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox.
5.4 Schrödinger's Cat.
5.5 The Watched Pot.
5.6 Hidden Variables and Bell's Theorem.
PART 2 Introduction to Quantum Field Theory.
6 Second Quantization of Spin 1/2 and Spin 1 Fields.
6.1 Second Quantization of Spin 1/2 Fields.
6.2 Second Quantization of Spin 1 Fields.
7 Covariant Perturbation Theory and Applications.
7.1 Covariant Perturbation Theory.
7.2 W and Z Boson Decays.
7.3 Feynman Graphs.
7.4 Second Order Processes and Propagators.
8 Quantum Electrodynamics.
8.1 Electron-Positron Annihilation.
8.2 Electron-Muon Scattering.
Index.