Advanced Quantum Mechanics : A Practical Guide / Yuli V. Nazarov, Jeroen Danon.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (368 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780511980428 (ebook)
- 530.12 23
- QC174.12 .N39 2013
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An accessible introduction to advanced quantum theory, this graduate-level textbook focuses on its practical applications rather than mathematical technicalities. It treats real-life examples, from topics ranging from quantum transport to nanotechnology, to equip students with a toolbox of theoretical techniques. Beginning with second quantization, the authors illustrate its use with different condensed matter physics examples. They then explain how to quantize classical fields, with a focus on the electromagnetic field, taking students from Maxwell's equations to photons, coherent states and absorption and emission of photons. Following this is a unique master-level presentation on dissipative quantum mechanics, before the textbook concludes with a short introduction to relativistic quantum mechanics, covering the Dirac equation and a relativistic second quantization formalism. The textbook includes 70 end-of-chapter problems. Solutions to some problems are given at the end of the chapter and full solutions to all problems are available for instructors at www.cambridge.org/9780521761505.
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