Invitation to quantum mechanics / Danel F. Styer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Styer, Daniel F., author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quantum theory.

Physical Description:

x, 289 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., [2022]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. "Something Isn't Quite Right"

1.1. Light in thermal equilibrium: Blackbody radiation

1.2. Photoelectric effect

1.3. Wave character of electrons

1.4. How does an electron behave?

1.5. Quantization of atomic energies

1.6. Quantization of magnetic moment

2. What Is Quantum Mechanics About?

2.1. Quantization

2.2. Interference

2.3. Aharonov-Bohm effect

2.4. Light on the atoms

2.5. Entanglement

2.6. Quantum cryptography

2.7. What is a qubit?

3. Forging Mathematical Tools

3.1. What is a quantal state?

3.2. Amplitude

3.3. Reversal-conjugation relation

3.4. Establishing a phase convention

3.5. How can I specify a quantal state?

3.6. States for entangled systems

3.7. Are states "real"?

3.8. What is a qubit?

4. The Quantum Mechanics of Position

4.1. Probability and probability density: One particle in one dimension

4.2. Probability amplitude

4.3. How does wavefunction change with time?

4.4. Wavefunction: Two particles in one or three dimensions

4.5. Solving the Schrodinger time evolution equation for the infinite square well

4.6. What did we learn by solving the Schrodinger time evolution equation for the infinite square well?

4.7. Other potentials

4.8. Energy loss

4.9. Mean values

4.10. The classical limit of quantum mechanics

4.11. Transitions induced by light

4.12. Position plus spin

5. Solving the Energy Eigenproblem

5.1. Sketching energy eigenfunctions

5.2. Scaled quantities

5.3. Numerical solution of the energy eigenproblem

6. Identical Particles

6.1. Two or three identical particles

6.2. Symmetrization and antisymmetrization

6.3. Consequences of the Pauli principle

6.4. Consequences of the Pauli principle for product states

6.5. Energy states for two identical, noninteracting particles

6.6. Spin plus space, two electrons

6.7. Spin plus space, three electrons, ground state

7. Atoms

7.1. Central potentials in two dimensions

7.2. Central potentials in three dimensions

7.3. The hydrogen atom

7.4. The helium atom

7.5. The lithium atom

7.6. All other atoms

7.7. The periodic table

8. The Vistas Open to Us.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9789811249280

9811249288

9789811247903

9811247900

OCLC:

1267752450

Publisher Number:

99990941665