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Applied Quantum Mechanics

By Walter A. Harrison

Book information

Publisher
World Scientific Publishing Company
Year
2000
ISBN
9789810243753, 9810243758, 9810243944
Open Library ID
OL9195228M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
20 MB (20564099 bytes)
Pages
370\370
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

Harrison's book is a good compromise between learning the full, formal maths approach to quantum mechanics and a pragmatic desire by engineering students to know enough to do useful work. It deprecates such ideas as operators in Hilbert spaces in favour of describing such practical implementations as quantum dots, quantum wires, tunnelling and other inherently quantum phenomena. The intent is to expose the reader to current active areas of solid state research and engineering, at the microscopic level when quantum effects must be taken into consideration. There is not enough here to do serious band structure calculations, for example. But you gain enough knowledge to understand and use band structure results that are presented to you.

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