This introductory course on quantum mechanics is the basic lecture which precedes and completes the author's second book Advanced Quantum Mechanics. The new edition is again up-to-date and has been revised. The book meets the students'needs by giving all mathematical steps, worked examples with applica- tions throughout the text, and many problems at the end of each chapter. It contains nonrelativistic quantum mechanics and a short treatment of the quantization of the radiation field. Besides the essentials, topics such as the theory of measurement, the Bell inequality, decoherence, entanglement and supersymmetric quantum mechanics are discussed. "Any student wishing to develop ma- thematical skills and deepen their understanding of the technical side of quantum theory will find Schwabl's Quantum Mechanics very helpful". #Contemporary Physics#

Klappentext

In the new edition, supplements, additional explanations and cross-references have been added at numerous places, including new formulations of some of the problems. In all these additions I have attempted not to change the compact character of the book. The present third English edition is identical to the current German sixth edition. The proofs were read by D. Badel, E. Bauer, E. Jorg-Miiller, S. Weinfurtner, A. Jurisch and T. Wollenweber. Special thanks go to them and to Prof. U. C. Tauber and Dr. R. Hilton for comments on some of the formulations. I would like to thank all colleagues and students who have made suggestions to improve the book, as well as the publisher. Munich, January 2002 F. Schwabl Preface to the First Edition This is a textbook on quantum mechanics. In an introductory chapter, the basic postulates are established, beginning with the historical development, by the analysis of an interference experiment. From then on the organization is purely deductive. In addition to the basic ideas and numerous applica­ tions, new aspects of quantum mechanics and their experimental tests are presented. In the text, emphasis is placed on a concise, yet self-contained, presentation. The comprehensibility is guaranteed by giving all mathemati­ cal steps and by carrying out the intermediate calculations completely and thoroughly.

Inhalt

1. Historical and Experimental Foundations.- 2. The Wave Function and the Schrödinger Equation.- 3. One-Dimensional Problems.- 4. The Uncertainty Relation.- 5. Angular Momentum.- 6. The Central Potential I.- 7. Motion in an Electromagnetic Field.- 8. Operators, Matrices, State Vectors.- 9. Spin.- 10. Addition of Angular Momenta.- 11. Approximation Methods for Stationary States.- 12. Relativistic Corrections.- 13. Several-Electron Atoms.- 14. The Zeeman Effect and the Stark Effect.- 15. Molecules.- 16. Time Dependent Phenomena.- 17. The Central Potential II.- 18. Scattering Theory.- 19. Supersymmetric Quantum Theory.- 20. State and Measurement in Quantum Mechanics.- A. Mathematical Tools for the Solution of Linear Differential Equations.- A.1 The Fourier Transform.- A.2 The Delta Function and Distributions.- A.3 Green's Functions.- B. Canonical and Kinetic Momentum.- C. Algebraic Determination of the Orbital Angular Momentum Eigenfunctions.- D. The Periodic Table and Important Physical Quantities.