Quantum Mechanics: Quantum Mechanics - With 88 Worked Examples and Problems

Quantum Mechanics - An Introduction lays the foundations for the rest of the course on quantum mechanics, advanced quantum mechanics, and field theory. Starting from black-body radiation, the photoelectric effect, and wave-particle duality, Greiner goes on to discuss the uncertainty relations, spin, and many-body systems; he includes applications to the hydrogen atom and the Stern-Gerlach and Einstein-de Haas experiments. The mathematics of representation theory, S matrices, perturbation theory, eigenvalue problems, and hypergeometric differential equations are presented in detail, with 88 fully and carefully worked examples and exercises to consolidate the material. The text starts with the historical and phenomenological background and then carefully builds up the wave mechanical treatment of matter. This fourth edition includes improved explanatory remarks, a total of 88 fully worked examples, and more exercises

List of contents

1 The Quantization of Physical Quantities.- 1.1 Light Quanta.- 1.2 The Photoelectric Effect.- 1.3 The Compton Effect.- 1.4 The Ritz Combination Principle.- 1.5 The Franck-Hertz Experiment.- 1.6 The Stern-Gerlach Experiment.- 1.7 Biographical Notes.- 2 The Radiation Laws.- 2.1 A Preview of the Radiation of Bodies.- 2.2 What is Cavity Radiation?.- 2.3 The Rayleigh-Jeans Radiation Law: The Electromagnetic Eigenmodes of a Cavity.- 2.4 Planck's Radiation Law.- 2.5 Biographical Notes.- 3 Wave Aspects of Matter.- 3.1 De Broglie Waves.- 3.2 The Diffraction of Matter Waves.- 3.3 The Statistical Interpretation of Matter Waves.- 3.4 Mean (Expectation) Values in Quantum Mechanics.- 3.5 Three Quantum Mechanical Operators.- 3.6 The Superposition Principle in Quantum Mechanics.- 3.7 The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.- 3.8 Biographical Notes.- 4 Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics I.- 4.1 Properties of Operators.- 4.2 Combining Two Operators.- 4.3 Bra and Ket Notation.- 4.4 Eigenvalues and Eigenfunctions.- 4.5 Measurability of Different Observables at Equal Times.- 4.6 Position and Momentum Operators.- 4.7 Heisenberg's Uncertainty Relations for Arbitrary Observables.- 4.8 Angular-Momentum Operators.- 4.9 Kinetic Energy.- 4.10 Total Energy.- 4.11 Biographical Notes.- 5 Mathematical Supplement.- 5.1 Eigendifferentials and the Normalization of Eigenfunctions for Continuous Spectra.- 5.2 Expansion into Eigenfunctions.- 6 The Schrödinger Equation.- 6.1 The Conservation of Particle Number in Quantum Mechanics.- 6.2 Stationary States.- 6.3 Properties of Stationary States.- 6.4 Biographical Notes.- 7 The Harmonic Oscillator.- 7.1 The Solution of the Oscillator Equation.- 7.2 The Description of the Harmonic Oscillator by Creation and Annihilation Operators.- 7.3 Properties of the Operators â and â+.- 7.4 Representation of the Oscillator Hamiltonian in Terms of â and â+.- 7.5 Interpretation of â and â+.- 7.6 Biographical Notes.- 8 The Transition from Classical to Quantum Mechanics.- 8.1 Motion of the Mean Values.- 8.2 Ehrenfest's Theorem.- 8.3 Constants of Motion, Laws of Conservation.- 8.4 Quantization in Curvilinear Coordinates.- 8.5 Biographical Notes.- 9 Charged Particles in Magnetic Fields.- Coupling to the Electromagnetic Field.- 9.1 The Hydrogen Atom.- 9.2 Three-Dimensional Electron Densities.- 9.3 The Spectrum of Hydrogen Atoms.- 9.4 Currents in the Hydrogen Atom.- 9.5 The Magnetic Moment.- 9.6 Hydrogen-like Atoms.- 9.7 Biographical Notes.- 10 The Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics II.- 10.1 Representation Theory.- 10.2 Representation of Operators.- 10.3 The Eigenvalue Problem.- 10.4 Unitary Transformations.- 10.5 The S Matrix.- 10.6 The Schrödinger Equation in Matrix Form.- 10.7 The Schrödinger Representation.- 10.8 The Heisenberg Representation.- 10.9 The Interaction Representation.- 10.10 Biographical Notes.- 11 Perturbation Theory.- 11.1 Stationary Perturbation Theory.- 11.2 Degeneracy.- 11.3 The Ritz Variational Method.- 11.4 Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory.- 11.5 Time-Independent Perturbation.- 11.6 Transitions Between Continuum States.- 11.7 Biographical Notes.- 12 Spin.- 12.1 Doublet Splitting.- 12.2 The Einstein-de Haas Experiment.- 12.3 The Mathematical Description of Spin.- 12.4 Wave Functions with Spin.- 12.5 The Pauli Equation.- 12.6 Biographical Notes.- 13 A Nonrelativistic Wave Equation with Spin.- 13.1 The Linearization of the Schrödinger Equation.- 13.2 Particles in an External Field and the Magnetic Moment.- 14 Elementary Aspects of the Quantum-Mechanical Many-Body Problem.- 14.1 The Conservation of the Total Momentum of a Particle System.- 14.2 Centre-of-Mass Motion of a System of Particles in Quantum Mechanics.- 14.3 Conservation of Total Angular Momentum in a Quantum-Mechanical Many-Particle System.- 14.4 Small Oscillations in a Many-Particle System.- 14.5 Biographical Notes.- 15 Identical Particles.- 15.1 The Pauli Principle.- 15.2 Exchange Degeneracy.- 15.3 The Slater Determinant.- 15.4 Biographical Notes.- 16 The Formal Framework of Quantum Mechanics.- 16.1 The Mathematical Foundation of Quantum Mechanics: Hilbert Space.- 16.2 Operators in Hilbert Space.- 16.3 Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors.- 16.4 Operators with Continuous or Discrete-Continuous (Mixed) Spectra.- 16.5 Operator Functions.- 16.6 Unitary Transformations.- 16.7 The Direct-Product Space.- 16.8 The Axioms of Quantum Mechanics.- 16.9 Free Particles.- 16.10 A Summary of Perturbation Theory.- 17 Conceptual and Philosophical Problems of Quantum Mechanics..- 17.1 Determinism.- 17.2 Locality.- 17.3 Hidden-Variable Theories.- 17.4 Bell's Theorem.- 17.5 Measurement Theory.- 17.6 Schrödinger's Cat.- 17.7 Subjective Theories.- 17.8 Classical Measurements.- 17.9 The Copenhagen Interpretation.- 17.10 Indelible Recording.- 17.11 The Splitting Universe.- 17.12 The Problem of Reality.

About the author

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dr. h. c. mult. Walter Greiner, geb. Oktober 1935 im Thüringer Wald, Promotion 1961 in Freiburg im Breisgau, 1962-64 Assistent Professor an der University of Maryland, seit 1964/65 ordentlicher Professor für Theoretische Physik der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main und Direktor des Instituts für Theoretische Physik. Gastprofessuren unter anderem an der Florida State University, University of Virginia, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Yale University, Vanderbilt University, University of Arizona. Hauptarbeitsgebiete sind die Struktur und Dynamik der elementaren Materie (Quarks, Gluonen, Mesonen, Baryonen, Atomkerne), Schwerionenphysik, Feldtheorie (Quantenelektrodynamik, Eichtheorie der schwachen Wechselwirkung, Quantenchromodynamik, Theorie der Gravitation), Atomphysik.§ 974 Empfänger des Max-Born-Preises und der Max-Born-Medaille des Institute of Physics (London) und der Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, 1982 des Otto-Hahn-Preises der Stadt Frankfurt am Main, 1998 der Alexander von Humboldt-Medaille, 1999 Officier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques.§Inhaber zahlreicher Ehrendoktorwürden (unter anderem der University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, der Universite Louis Pasteur Strasbourg, der UNAM Mexico, der Universitäten Bucharest, Tel Aviv, Nantes, St. Petersburg, Moskau, Debrecen, Dubna und anderen) sowie Ehrenprofessuren (University of Bejing, China, und Jilin University Changchun, China) und Ehrenmitglied vieler Akademien.

Summary

Quantum Mechanics - An Introduction lays the foundations for the rest of the course on quantum mechanics, advanced quantum mechanics, and field theory. Starting from black-body radiation, the photoelectric effect, and wave-particle duality, Greiner goes on to discuss the uncertainty relations, spin, and many-body systems; he includes applications to the hydrogen atom and the Stern-Gerlach and Einstein-de Haas experiments. The mathematics of representation theory, S matrices, perturbation theory, eigenvalue problems, and hypergeometric differential equations are presented in detail, with 88 fully and carefully worked examples and exercises to consolidate the material. The text starts with the historical and phenomenological background and then carefully builds up the wave mechanical treatment of matter. This fourth edition includes improved explanatory remarks, a total of 88 fully worked examples, and more exercises

Product details

• Authors: D. a. Bromley, Walter Greiner
• Assisted by: D. Allan Bromley (Foreword)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.08.2001
• EAN: 9783540674580
• ISBN: 978-3-540-67458-0
• No. of pages: 486
• Dimensions: 194 mm x 243 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 1002 g
• Illustrations: XXII, 486 p. 14 illus.
• Sets: Quantum Mechanics; Quantum Mechanics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics; B, Quantum Physics, Physics and Astronomy, Mechanics, field theory, quantum mechanics, wave equation, particles, magnetic field, electromagnetic field, quantization, spectra, n-body problem, perturbation theory, hydrogen atom