Overview
- Written in an engaging style, places Quantum Mechanics in a broader physics context
- Extensively revised and enhanced edition
- Each chapter provides a set of exercises, questions, a problem and solutions
Part of the book series: Graduate Texts in Physics (GTP)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Textbook Quantum Teleportation
- Textbook Quantum Cryptography
- Textbook Entangled States
- Textbook Energy Quantization
- Textbook Quantum Mechanics
- Textbook Quantum Physics
- Textbook Theoretical Physics
- Textbook Hydrogen Atom
- Textbook Schrödinger
- Textbook Quantum Information
- Textbook Photon Physics
- Textbook Quantum Computer
About this book
The new edition of this remarkable textbook offers the reader a conceptually strong introduction to quantum mechanics, but goes beyond this to present a fascinating tour of modern theoretical physics. Beautifully illustrated and engagingly written, it starts with a brief overview of diverse topics across physics including nanotechnology, materials science, and cosmology. It provides new chapters on astrophysics, quantum information and the photon. Each chapter provides a set of exercises, questions, a problem and solutions.
The core of the book covers both established and emerging aspects of quantum mechanics. A concise introduction to traditional quantum mechanics covers the Schrödinger equation, Hilbert space, photon physics, the algebra of observables, hydrogen atom, spin and Pauli principle. Modern features of the field are presented with Bell's inequality by exploring systems of entangled states, that have generated the 'second quantum revolution' of systems that communicate instantly at a distance, and the birth of quantum information: cryptography, teleportation and quantum computers.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jean-Louis Basdevant, graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure (1958-1963), PhD at Strasbourg University (1967). Assistant researcher up to Director of Research at the CNRS (1963-2007), CERN (1970-1972). Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique (1969-2004). Nominated Honorary Professor (2004).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Lectures on Quantum Mechanics
Book Subtitle: With Problems, Exercises and Solutions
Authors: Jean-Louis Basdevant
Series Title: Graduate Texts in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17635-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-17634-0Published: 04 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-17635-7Published: 02 February 2023
Series ISSN: 1868-4513
Series E-ISSN: 1868-4521
Edition Number: 3
Number of Pages: XVII, 482
Number of Illustrations: 91 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Original French edition published by Vuibert, Paris, France, 2005 and de Boeck Superieur S.A., Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 2019
Topics: Quantum Physics, Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics, Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Nanotechnology, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Quantum Computing