Overview
- Written by an experienced lecturer with a great insight into and understanding of quantum mechanics, and a gift for explaining it
- Combines the standard topics with new knowledge and developments, such as quantum information and neutrino oscillation
- Discusses further advanced topics in the appendix, including many exercises with solutions
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics (ULNP)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Applications and Extensions
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The basic principles of quantum mechanics are presented in the first volume. This second volume discusses applications and extensions to more complex problems. In addition to topics traditionally dealt with in quantum mechanics texts, such as symmetries or many-body problems, here also issues of current interest such as entanglement, Bell's inequalities, decoherence and various aspects of quantum information are treated in detail. Furthermore, questions of the basis of quantum mechanics and epistemological issues are discussed explicitly; these are relevant e.g. to the realism debate. A chapter on the interpretations of quantum mechanics completes this volume.
The necessary mathematical tools are introduced step by step; in the appendix, the most relevant mathematics is compiled in compact form. More advanced topics such as the Lenz vector, Hardy's experiment and Shor's algorithm are treated in more detail in the appendix. As an essential aid to learning and teaching, 130 exercises are included, most of them with their solutions.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jochen Pade studied physics in Freiburg (Germany), where he received his PhD in theoretical physics in 1978. Since 1980, he has been a lecturer at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg (Germany). His research interests are: Theoretical physics, didactics and popularisation of science.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Quantum Mechanics for Pedestrians 2: Applications and Extensions
Authors: Jochen Pade
Series Title: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00813-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-00813-4Published: 08 November 2013
Series ISSN: 2192-4791
Series E-ISSN: 2192-4805
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 482
Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations, 49 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Original German edition Quantenmechanik zu Fuß 2 published by Springer-Verlag, 2012
Topics: Quantum Physics, Quantum Field Theories, String Theory, Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences, Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics