Quantum Theory: A Wide Spectrum

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Springer Science & Business Media, Jan 16, 2007 - Science - 1011 pages

The ultimate modern textbook on Quantum Theory, this graduate-level and self-contained s text is also a reference and research work which provides background for researchers in this discipline, covering important recent developments and most aspects of the theory with fairly detailed presentations.
In addition to traditional topics, it includes: selective measurements, Wigner's Theorem of symmetry transformations, generators of quantum transformations, supersymmetry, details on the spectra of Hamiltonians and stability of quantum systems, Bose-Fermi oscillators, coherent states, hyperfine structure of the H-atom for any angular momentum, the non-relativistic Lamb shift, anomalous magnetic moment of the electron, Ramsey oscillatory fields methods, measurement, interference and the role of the environment, the AB effect, geometric phases (including the nonadiabatic and noncyclic), Schrödinger's cat and quantum decoherence, quantum teleportation and cryptography, quantum dynamics of the Stern-Gerlach effect, Green functions, path integrals, including constrained dynamics, quantum dynamical principle and variations, systematics of multi-electron atoms, stability of matter, collapse of "bosonic matter" and the role of spin, intricacies of scattering, quantum description of relativistic particles for any spin and mass, spinors, helicity, the Spin & Statistics Theorem.
In addition it contains numerous problems, some of which are challenging enough for research.

 

Contents

Symmetries and Transformations
81
Defined Relative to the Nucleus
105
Uncertainties Localization Stability and Decay
142
Spectra of Hamiltonians
181
Angular Momentum Gymnastics 249
248
Intricacies of Harmonic Oscillators
329
Intricacies of the Hydrogen Atom 359
358
Quantum Physics of Spin 12 and TwoLevel Systems
419
Quantum Physics and the Stability of Matter
765
Quantum Scattering 799
798
29
804
33
815
Expansion
816
39
857
Problems
877
Quantum Description of Relativistic Particles
881

Time Evolution and Intensity Distribution
540
Green Functions
547
Path Integrals
601
The Quantum Dynamical Principle 649
650
Approximating Quantum Systems
683
Different Descriptions
710
Beyond the ThomasFermi Atom
739
Contribution to EZ for Large Z
746
Atom
926
Position Operators
942
Variations of the BakerCampbellHausdorff Formula
973
The Poisson Equation in 4D
981
References
987
Index
999
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Professor Dr. Edouard B. Manoukian did his graduate studies at McGill and at the University of Toronto in Canada, receiving his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in 1968 and 1971, respectively. He carried out research at the Theoretical Physics Institute of the University of Alberta, the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, and the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques Appliquées of the University of Montreal. In 1978 he joined the staff of the Department of National Defence of the Royal Military College of Canada and was appointed as a full professor in 1985. Presently E.B. Manoukian is a professor in the School of Physics of the Suranaree University of Technology. He has authored several books including the one entitled "Renormalization" (ISBN: 0124694500, New York: Academic Press, 1983) which may be of interest to readers of the present book, and he has published over 160 research papers on most aspects of theoretical physics.

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