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Lectures in Quantum Mechanics: A Two-Term Course

By Luigi E. Picasso

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Year
2015
ISBN
3319226312, 978-3-319-22631-6, 978-3-319-22632-3
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-22632-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3525132 bytes)
Series
UNITEXT for Physics
Edition
1
Pages
356\356
Time added
2015-11-17 14:45:36
MolecularOptical and Plasma PhysicsQuantum Field Theory; AtomicQuantum Physics; Classical and Quantum GravitationRelativity Theory; Elementary Particles

Description

Based on a series of university lectures on nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, this textbook covers a wide range of topics, from the birth of quantum mechanics to the fine-structure levels of heavy atoms. The author sets out from the crisis in classical physics and explores the seminal ideas of Einstein, Bohr, and de Broglie and their vital importance for the development of quantum mechanics. There follows a bottom-up presentation of the postulates of quantum mechanics through real experiments (such as those of neutron interferometry), with consideration of their most important consequences, including applications in the field of atomic physics. A final chapter is devoted to the paradoxes of quantum mechanics, and particularly those aspects that are still open and hotly debated, to end up with a mention to Bell's theorem and Aspect's experiments. In presenting the principles of quantum mechanics in an inductive way, this book has already proved very popular with students in its Italian language version.It complements the exercises and solutions book "Problems in Quantum Mechanics", by E. d'Emilio, L.E. Picasso (Springer).

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