Overview
- Allows students to perform their own computer-based quantum physics experiments in vivid, 3D graphics
- Provides a vaster-reaching scope of physics, the addition of a movie-generating feature, and an increased quantity of examples, compared to the 1st edition
- Illustrates quantum-mechanical phenomena with an innovative, "hands-on" computer program containing over 300 exercises and solutions
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Interquanta (IQ), an interactive program on quantum mechanics allows students to do their own quantum physics experiments on the computer, and to study in 3D color graphics such quantities as complex probability amplitude, eigencalues, scattering cross sections, and more. By experiencing many such computer experiments, students gain a unique, "hands-on" experience in quantum physics which is otherwise difficult to achieve. The graphic features include two-and three-dimensional graphics in the form of static frames and motion pictures.
Students do no programming, and hence need no previous detailed knowledge of this. The program has a very convenient, self-explanatory user interface based on the Java software technology. The book provides a recapitulation of the basic quantum mechanical formula, a manual to the IQ program, and a complete course with more than 300 tested problems. Fully automatic demonstration sessions are provided as introduction to interactive work.
Physics topics covered include free particles, bound states and scattering in various potentials in one and three space dimensions, two-particle systems, properties of special functions of mathematical physics.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Interactive Quantum Mechanics
Book Subtitle: Quantum Experiments on the Computer
Authors: S. Brandt, T. Stroh, H.D. Dahmen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7424-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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 Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-7423-5Published: 20 January 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-3824-7Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-7424-2Published: 06 January 2011
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XV, 379
Topics: Quantum Physics, Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics, Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation