Overview
- A clearly written basic textbook with a good balance between basic explanations and applications
- Supplies new views on eigenvalues and eigenfunctions in quantum mechanics
- Gives background needed to understand quantum cryptography, teleportation and computation
- Provides a clear and consistent understanding of quantum concepts and quantum phenomenology
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics (ULNP)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Special emphasis is devoted to study the tunneling phenomena, transmission coefficients, phase coherence, energy levels splitting and related phenomena, of interest for quantum devices and heterostructures. The discussion of these problems and the WKB approximation is done using the transfer matrix method, introduced at a tutorial level. This book is a textbook for upper undergraduate physics and electronic engineering students.
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“The book under review is a lecture on quantum physics for undergraduate students. It covers the most important basic notions and technics in this field with a reasonable degree of mathematical complexity. … this is a good introduction of the quantum theory for undergraduate students and a useful reference for graduate students or scientists from academic disciplines else than physics.” (Philosophy, Religion and Science Book Reviews, bookinspections.wordpress.com, October, 2013)
“The book under review is a lecture on quantum physics for undergraduate students. It covers the most important basic notions and technics in this field with a reasonable degree of mathematical complexity. … this is a good introduction of the quantum theory for undergraduate students and a useful reference for graduate students or scientists from academic disciplines else than physics.” (Thierry Jecko, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1264, 2013)Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Professor Pedro Pereyra P. works at the Department of Basic Sciences of the Autonomous Metropolitan University (campus Azcapotzalco, Mexico). Prof. Pereyra has taught in the order of 200 courses at undergraduate level with a great variety of subjects ranging from Mathematics and elementary Physics to advanced and specialized topics of current interest in Physics. His teaching experience has resulted in course notes and two textbooks. He co-authored and has been sole author of more that 60 research articles of theoretical and experimental physics in high impact journals and has served also as Referee of these journals. He has contributed in various areas of physics, among these, in the Theory of Nuclear Reactions, Theory of Two-Quantum Level Systems, High Temperature Superconductivity, Theory of Finite Periodic Systems and in the elusive and fundamental theme of "Tunneling Time".
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fundamentals of Quantum Physics
Book Subtitle: Textbook for Students of Science and Engineering
Authors: Pedro Pereyra
Series Title: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29378-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-29377-1Published: 29 July 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-29378-8Published: 28 November 2012
Series ISSN: 2192-4791
Series E-ISSN: 2192-4805
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 322
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 62 illustrations in colour
Topics: Quantum Physics, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Plasma Physics