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Starting from basic principles, the book covers a wide variety of topics, ranging from Heisenberg, Schroedinger, second quantization, density matrix and path integral formulations of quantum mechanics, to applications that are (or will be) corner stones of present and future technologies.
The emphasis is on spin waves, quantum information, recent tests of quantum physics and decoherence. The book provides a large amount of information without unbalancing the flow of the main ideas by laborious detail.
List of contents
Introduction.- The Principles of Quantum Mechanics.- Other Consequences of the Basic Principles.- The Heisenberg Realization of Quantum.- The Schroedinger Realization of Quantum Physics.- Angular Momenta.- Three-Dimensional Hamiltonian.- Many-Body Problems.- Approximate Solutions to Quantum Problems.- Time-Dependence in Quantum Mechanics.- Broken Symmetries.- Entanglement and Experimental Tests of Quantum Mechanics.- Quantum Information.- Other Formulations of Quantum Mechanics: the Density Matrix and the Path Integral.- The Classical and Quantum Realities. Decoherence and Measurements.- A Brief History of Quantum Mechanics.
About the author
Daniel Bes is Emeritus Professor in the Facultad de Ingeniera y Ciencias Exactas y Naturales and Consultant to the Universidad Favaloro, Argentina. He is also Emeritus Researcher at the Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica, Argentina.
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Starting from basic principles, the book covers a wide variety of topics, ranging from Heisenberg, Schroedinger, second quantization, density matrix and path integral formulations of quantum mechanics, to applications that are (or will be) corner stones of present and future technologies.
The emphasis is on spin waves, quantum information, recent tests of quantum physics and decoherence. The book provides a large amount of information without unbalancing the flow of the main ideas by laborious detail.
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“This is an outstanding book with reference to the principles of quantum mechanics in the schools of Heisenberg and Schrodinger. It discusses the second and multiple dimensional theories of quantum physics looking carefully at the mathematical and statistics foundations. The third dimensional Schrodinger equation is discussed. There are keywords and problems at the end of every major discussion. … I recommend this book highly to physics students and graduates, in addition to any other interested audiences of all backgrounds.” (Joseph Grenier, Amazon.com, February, 2015)
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From the book reviews:
"This is an outstanding book with reference to the principles of quantum mechanics in the schools of Heisenberg and Schrodinger. It discusses the second and multiple dimensional theories of quantum physics looking carefully at the mathematical and statistics foundations. The third dimensional Schrodinger equation is discussed. There are keywords and problems at the end of every major discussion. ... I recommend this book highly to physics students and graduates, in addition to any other interested audiences of all backgrounds." (Joseph Grenier, Amazon.com, February, 2015)
