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  title info:
    title: Quantum mechanics
    sub title: an experimentalist's approach
  name:
    name part: Commins, Eugene D.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    copyright date: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: regular print
    extent: xiii, 680 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
  abstract: Eugene D. Commins takes an experimentalist's approach to quantum mechanics, preferring to use concrete physical explanations over formal, abstract descriptions to address the needs and interests of a diverse group of students. Keeping physics at the foreground and explaining difficult concepts in straightforward language, Commins examines the many modern developments in quantum physics, including Bell's inequalities, locality, photon polarization correlations, the stability of matter, Casimir forces, geometric phases, Aharonov-Bohm and Aharonov-Casher effects, magnetic monopoles, neutrino oscillations, neutron interferometry, the Higgs mechanism, and the electroweak standard model. The text is self-contained, covering the necessary background on atomic and molecular structure in addition to the traditional topics. Developed from the author's well-regarded course notes for his popular first-year graduate course at UC Berkeley, instruction is supported by over 160 challenging problems to illustrate concepts and provide students with ample opportunity to test their knowledge and understanding.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Mathematical review -- The rules of quantum mechanics -- The connection between the fundamental rules and wave mechanics -- Further illustrations of the rules of quantum mechanics -- Further developments in one-dimensional wave mechanics -- The theory of angular momentum -- Wave mechanics in three dimensions : hydrogenic atoms -- Time-independent approximations for bound-state problems -- Applications of perturbation theory : bound states of hydrogenic atoms -- Identical particles -- Atomic structure -- Molecules -- The stability of matter -- Photons -- Interaction of nonrelativistic charged particles and radiation -- Further topics in perturbation theory -- Scattering -- Special relativity and quantum mechanics : the Klein-Gordon equation -- The Dirac equation -- Interaction of a relativistic spin-1/2 particle with an external electromagnetic field -- The Dirac field -- Interaction between relativistic electrons, positrons, and photons -- The quantum mechanics of weak interactions -- The quantum measurement problem.
  note: Eugene D. Commins, Professor of Physics, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Quantum theory
  subject:
    topic: Quantum theory
  classification: QC174.12 .C646 2014
  classification: 530.12
  identifier: 110706399X
  identifier: 9781107063990
  identifier: 2014002491
  record info:
    record content source: OU/DLC
    record creation date: 140509
    record change date: 20210311145846.0
    record identifier: in00003517038
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng