Overview
- Builds a solid introduction to the concepts and techniques of quantum mechanics in settings where the phenomena treated are sufficiently simple: systems that can either be solved exactly or be handled by well-controlled, plausible approximations
- Includes discussions of many-electron atoms, the electromagnetic field, and the Dirac equation
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics (GTCP)
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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A: MATHEMATICAL AND GENERAL (27 FEBRUARY 2004)
"… [The first edition] has become one of the most used and respected accounts of quantum theory … Gottfried and Yan’s book contains a vast amount of knowledge and understanding. As well as explaining the way in which quantum theory works, it attempts to illuminate fundamental aspects of the theory … For use with a well-constructed course (and, of course, this is the avowed purpose of the book; a useful range of problems is provided for each chapter), or for the relative expert getting to grips with particular aspects of the subject or aiming for a deeper understanding, the book is certainly ideal."
PHYSICS TODAY (August 2004)
"…especially useful for graduate students and professors who have time to go beyond the bare essentials of a topic and explore it in depth… I would recommend the book for its lucid discussions of less familiar topics alone, but the authors do not short-change the standardsubjects… I expect the second edition of Gottfried and Yan to join my library of well thumbed-through texts."
From the reviews of the second edition:
"The book under review offers the reader in-depth physical and mathematical understanding of quantum mechanics. The book is the second edition of Gottfried’s Quantum mechanics. … Readers’ anticipations have finally been rewarded by the second edition of the earlier book, which is a complete revision covering most of the topics and much more … . The appendix contains the values of important physical constants, some useful operator identities … . The end notes at the conclusion of each chapter contain many useful references." (Howard E. Brandt, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2007 f)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Quantum Mechanics: Fundamentals
Authors: Kurt Gottfried, Tung-Mow Yan
Series Title: Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21623-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-95576-6Published: 19 June 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-22023-9Published: 15 July 2004
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-21623-2Published: 01 December 2013
Series ISSN: 0938-037X
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVIII, 622
Additional Information: 1st ed. was originally published by Benjamin, 1996, ISBN 0-8053-3332-0, now with Westview Press, ISBN 0-201-40633-0.
Topics: Quantum Physics