Quantum Mechanics in a Nutshell

Name: Quantum Mechanics in a Nutshell
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ISBN: 9780691137131

ISBN-10: 0691137137

ISBN-13: 9780691137131

Edition: 2009

Authors: Gerald D. Mahan

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List price: $110.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 1/18/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.97" wide x 10.24" long x 1.11" tall
Weight: 2.508
Language: English

Gerald D. Mahan is Distinguished Professor of Physics at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of two previous physics textbooks, "Many-Particle Physics" and "Applied Mathematics".



Preface xi



Introduction



Introduction



Schrouml;dinger's Equation



Eigenfunctions



Measurement



Representations



Schrouml;dinger Representation



Heisenberg Representation



Noncommuting Operators



One Dimension



Square Well



Linear Potentials



Harmonic Oscillator



Raising and Lowering Operators



Exponential Potential



Bound State



Continuum State



Delta-Function Potential



Number of Solutions



Normalization



Bound States



Box Normalization



Delta-Function Normalization



The Limit of Infinite Volume



Wave Packets



Approximate Methods



WKBJ



Bound States by WKBJ



Harmonic Oscillator



Morse Potential



Symmetric Ramp



Discontinuous Potentials



Electron Tunneling



Variational Theory



Half-Space Potential



Harmonic Oscillator in One Dimension



Spin and Angular Momentum



Operators, Eigenvalues, and Eigenfunctions



Commutation Relations



Raising and Lowering Operators



Eigenfunctions and Eigenvalues



Representations



Rigid Rotations



The Addition of Angular Momentum



Two and Three Dimensions



Plane Waves in Three Dimensions



Plane Waves in Two Dimensions



Central Potentials



Central Potentials in 3D



Central Potential in 2D



Coulomb Potentials



Bound States



Confluent Hypergeometric Functions



Hydrogen Eigenfunctions



Continuum States



WKBJ



Three Dimensions



3D Hydrogen Atom



Two Dimensions



Hydrogen-like Atoms



Quantum Defect



WKBJ Derivation



Expectation Values



Variational Theory



Hydrogen Atom:n1



Hydrogen Atom:l1



Helium Atom



Free Particles in a Magnetic Field



Gauges



Eigenfunctions and Eigenvalues



Density of States



Quantum Hall Effect



Flux Quantization



Matrix Methods and Perturbation Theory



H and H0



Matrix Methods



2 x 2



Coupled Spins



Tight-Binding Model



The Stark Effect



Perturbation Theory



General Formulas



Harmonic Oscillator in Electric Field



Continuum States



Green's Function



The Polarizability



Quantum Definition



Polarizability of Hydrogen



Van der Waals Potential



Spin-Orbit Interaction



Spin-Orbit in Atoms



Alkali Valence Electron in Electric Field



Bound Particles in Magnetic Fields