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"A textbook for a two-semester graduate course on quantum mechanics with a strong emphasis on conceptual issues and contemporary topics. The text contains type A and B material separated by difficulty. Self-contained, this book demands minimal physics background and is accompanied by 300 unsolved problems and 150 questions, and a solutions manual"--
List of contents
Preface; Acknowledgements; Important Information; How to Use This Book; Conventions; Part I. Introduction: 1. The classical world; 2. The birth of quantum theory; Part II. The Principles of Quantum Theory: 3. Hilbert spaces and the superposition principle; 4. Operators: I. General theory; 5. Operators: II. Applications; 6. Quantum probabilities; 7. Time evolution; 8. Quantum state reduction; 9. Composite quantum systems and entanglement; 10. Quantum-classical correspondence; Part III. Elementary Systems and Their Symmetries: 11. Symmetries I: Rotations; 12. Symmetries: II Group theory in quantum mechanics; 13. Particles in three dimensions; 14. Particles with spin; 15. Particle statistics and field-particle duality; 16. Relativistic systems; Part IV. Techniques: 17. Energy spectra and the structure of composite systems; 18. Transitions and decays; 19. Scattering theory; 20. Open quantum systems; Part V. Quantum Foundations: 21. Quantum measurements; 22. Interpretations and challenges; Appendix A Useful formulas; Appendix B Special functions; Appendix C Elements of group theory; References.
About the author
Charis Anastopoulos is an associate professor in the department of physics at the University of Patras, Greece. He holds a Ph.D. from Imperial College, London and has worked in various academic positions at the universities of Barcelona, Maryland, and Utrecht. His research focuses on quantum foundations, quantum information and general relativity. He is also the author of Particle or Wave: The Evolution of the Concept of Matter in Modern Physics (Princeton University Press, 2008).
