Quantum Mechanics

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIII

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2. Historical and Experimental Foundations

   • Franz Schwabl

   Pages 1-10

3. The Wave Function and the Schrödinger Equation

   • Franz Schwabl

   Pages 11-41

4. One-Dimensional Problems

   • Franz Schwabl

   Pages 43-89

5. The Uncertainty Relation

   • Franz Schwabl

   Pages 91-99

6. Angular Momentum

   • Franz Schwabl

   Pages 101-112

7. The Central Potential I

   • Franz Schwabl

   Pages 113-135

8. Motion in an Electromagnetic Field

   • Franz Schwabl

   Pages 137-150

9. Operators, Matrices, State Vectors

   • Franz Schwabl

   Pages 151-174

10. Spin

    • Franz Schwabl

    Pages 175-183

11. Addition of Angular Momenta

    • Franz Schwabl

    Pages 185-193

12. Approximation Methods for Stationary States

    • Franz Schwabl

    Pages 195-205

13. Relativistic Corrections

    • Franz Schwabl

    Pages 207-217

14. Several-Electron Atoms

    • Franz Schwabl

    Pages 219-249

15. The Zeeman Effect and the Stark Effect

    • Franz Schwabl

    Pages 251-261

16. Molecules

    • Franz Schwabl

    Pages 263-280

17. Time Dependent Phenomena

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    Pages 281-302

18. The Central Potential II

    • Franz Schwabl

    Pages 303-314

19. Scattering Theory

    • Franz Schwabl

    Pages 315-341

20. Supersymmetric Quantum Theory

    • Franz Schwabl

    Pages 343-355

A student's first course on quantum mechanics provides the foundation essential for much of his or her future work in physics, be it in atomic, elementary particle, or solid state physics. This introductory textbook contains not only the foundations and many applications of quantum mechanics, but also new aspects and their experimental verification. It has as its particular virtues clarity and conciseness of presentation, while at the same time being self-contained. Comprehensibility is further guaranteed by the inclusion of all the mathematical steps required for a complete understanding. Carefully chosen problems help to consolidate the student's knowledge. In the introductory chapters, starting from the historical evolution of the subject, the fundamental postulates are developed inductively by means of an interference experiment. Thereafter the structure is purely deductive, covering all of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, plus the quantization of the radiation field in the context of optical transitions. As well as the quantum mechanical "essentials", for instance, detailed treatments of scattering theory, time dependent phenomena, and the density matrix, such topics as the theory of quantum mechanical measurement and the Bell inequality are dis- cussed. A separate chapter is devoted to supersymmetric quantum mechanics, an area which to date has been accessible only in the research literature.

• Phänomen
• Quantenmechanik
• Schrödinger equation
• Schrödinger-Gleichung
• Streutheorie
• Streuung
• quantum mechanics
• quantum mechnics
• scattering theory
• time-dependent phenomena
• zeitabhängige Phänomene

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  Franz Schwabl

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