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  title info:
    title: Quantum physics
    sub title: a text for graduate students
  name:
    name part: Newton, Roger G.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2002
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 411 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: This text develops quantum theory from its basic assumptions, beginning with statics, followed by dynamics and details of applications and the needed computational techniques. The discussion is based on the view that the fundamental entities of the universe are not particles but fields, with the observed particles arising as their quanta. Quantum fields are thus introduced from the beginning, with a discussion of how they produce quanta that manifest themselves as particles. Most of the book, of course, deals with particle systems, as that is where most of the applications lie; the treatment of quantum field theory is confined to fundamental ideas and their consequences. For developing quantum dynamics, the author uses the Lagrangian technique with the principle of stationary action. The roots of this approach, which includes generating the canonical commutation rules, go back to a course taught by Julian Schwinger, filtered through many years of the authors own teaching. The text emphasizes that the wave function does not exist in physical three-dimensional space, but in configuration space, and it points out that the probabilistic features of the theory arise not from a lack of determinism but from the definition of the "state" of a system, so that many, though not all, of the counterintuitive aspects of quantum mechanics arise from its probabilistic nature and are shared by other probabilistic theories such as classical statistical mechanics.
  table of contents: Cover -- Preface -- Contents -- Part 1-Physics -- 1. Quantum Basics: Statics -- 2. Quantum Basics: Dynamics -- 3. The Schrodinger Equation in One Dimension -- 4. One- and Two-Particle Systems in Three Dimensions -- 5. Symmetries -- 6. Stationary Approximation Methods -- 7. Static Magnetic Fields -- 8. Time Dependent Hamiltonians -- 9. Multiparticle Systems -- 10. Relativistic Electron Theory -- Part II- Mathematical Appendices -- A-The Dirac Delta Function -- B-Hilbert Space -- C- Linear Integral Equations -- D-Special Functions -- E-Group Representation -- References.
  note: Roger G. Newton.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-401) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Quantum theory
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Science
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Physics
    topic: Quantum Theory
  subject:
    topic: Quantum theory
  classification: QC174.12 .N49 2002eb
  classification: 530.12
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    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Springer, ©2002
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    record creation date: 020313
    record change date: 20260422160743.3
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    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng