Quantum mechanics/ (Record no. 151238)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780486409245 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | CUS |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 530.12 |
| Item number | MES/ |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Messiah, Albert. |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Quantum mechanics/ |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Albert Messiah. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Dover, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1999. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xxi, 1136 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. ; |
| Dimensions | 22 cm. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Contents of Volume I<br/>Part 1. The formalism and its Interpretation<br/>Chapter 1. The origins of the quantum theory<br/>1. The end of the classical period<br/>2. Light quanta or photons<br/>3. Quantization of material systems<br/>4. Correspondence principle and the old quantum theory<br/>Chapter 2. Matter Waves and the Schrodinger Equation<br/>1. Matter waves<br/>2. The Schrodinger Equation<br/>3. The time-independent Schrodinger equation<br/>Chapter 3. One-Dimensional Quantized Systems<br/>1. Square potentials<br/>2. General properties of the one-dimensional Schrodinger equation<br/>Chapter 4. Statistical Interpretation of the wave-corpuscle duality and the uncertainty relations<br/>1. Statistical interpretation of the wave functions of wave mechanics<br/>2. Heisenberg's uncertainty relations<br/>3. Uncertainty relations and the measurement process<br/>4. Description of phenomena in quantum theory. Complementarity and causality<br/>Chapter 5. Development of the formalism of wave mechanics and its interpretation<br/>1. Hermitean operators and physical quantities<br/>2. Study of the discrete spectrum<br/>3. Statistics of measurement in the general case<br/>4. Determination of the wave function<br/>5. Commutator algebra and its applications<br/>Chapter 6. Classical Approximation and the WKB Method<br/>1. The classical limit of wave mechanics<br/>2. The WKB method<br/>Chapter 7. General Formalism of the quantum theory: (A) Mathematical framework<br/>1. Vectors and operators<br/>2. Hermitean operators, projectors, and observables<br/>3. Representation theory<br/>Chapter 8. General Formalism: (B) Description of physical phenomena<br/>1. Dynamical states and physical quantities<br/>2. The equations of motion<br/>3. Various representations of the theory<br/>4. Quantum statistics<br/>Part 2. Simple Systems<br/>Chapter 9. Solution of the Schrodinger Equation by Separation of variables. Central potential<br/>1. Particle in a central potential. General treatment<br/>2. Central square-well potential. Free particle<br/>3. Two-body problems. Separation of the center-of-mass motion<br/>Chapter 10. Scattering problems. Central potential and phase-shift method<br/>1. Cross sections and scattering amplitudes<br/>2. Scattering by a central potential. Phase shifts<br/>3. Potential of finite range<br/>4. Scattering resonances<br/>5. Various formulae and properties<br/>Chapter 11. The Coulomb interaction<br/>1. The hydrogen atom<br/>2. Coulomb scattering<br/>Chapter 12. The harmonic oscillator<br/>1. Eigenstates and eigenvectors of the Hamiltonian<br/>2. Applications and various properties<br/>3. Isotropic harmonic oscillators in several dimensions<br/>Appendix A. Distributions, sigma-"function" and Fourier transformation<br/>Appendix B. Special functions and associated formulae<br/>Contents of Volume II<br/>Part 3. Symmetries and Invariance<br/>Chapter 13. Angular momentum in quantum mechanics<br/>1. Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of angular momentum<br/>2. Orbital angular momentum and the spherical harmonics<br/>3. Angular momentum and rotations<br/>4. Spin<br/>5. Addition of angular momenta<br/>6. Irreducible tensor operators<br/>Chapter 14. Systems of identical particles. Pauli exclusion principle<br/>1. Symmetrization postulate<br/>2. Applications<br/>Chapter 15. Invariance and conservation theorems. Time reversal<br/>1. Mathematical complements. Antilinear operators<br/>2. Transformations and groups of transformations<br/>3. Invariance of the equations of motion and conservation laws<br/>4. Time reversal and the principle of microreversibility<br/>Part 4. Methods of Approximation<br/>Chapter 16. Stationary Perturbations<br/>1. Perturbation of a non-degenerate level<br/>2. Perturbation of a degenerate level<br/>3. Explicit forms for the perturbation expansion in all orders<br/>Chapter 17. Approximate solutions of the time-dependent Schrodinger equation<br/>1. Time dependent perturbation theory<br/>2. Sudden or adiabatic change of the hamiltonian<br/>Chapter 18. The variational method and associated problems<br/>1. Variational method for bound states<br/>2. The Hartree and Fock-Dirac atoms<br/>3. The structure of molecules<br/>Chapter 19. Collision theory<br/>1. Free wave Green's function and the Born approximation<br/>2. Generalization to distorted waves<br/>3. Complex collisions and the Born approximation<br/>4. Variational calculations of transition amplitudes<br/>5. General properties of the transition matrix<br/>Part 5. Elements of Relativistic quantum mechanics<br/>Chapter 20. The Dirac equation<br/>1. General Introduction<br/>2. The Dirac and Klein-Gordon equations<br/>3. Invariance properties of the Dirac equation<br/>4. Interpretation of the operators and simple solutions<br/>5. Non-relativistic limit of the Dirac equation<br/>6. Negative energy solutions and positron theory<br/>Chapter 21. Field quantization. Radiation theory<br/>1. Quantization of a real scalar field<br/>2. Coupling with an atomic system<br/>3. Classical theory of electromagnetic radiation<br/>4. Quantum theory of radiation<br/>Appendix C. Vector addition coefficients and rotation matrices<br/>Appendix D. Elements of group theory<br/>General Index |
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| Keyword | Quantum theory. |
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