Starting from basic principles, the book covers a wide variety of topics, ranging from Heisenberg, Schroedinger, second quantization, density matrix and path integral formulations of quantum mechanics, to applications that are (or will be) corner stones of present and future technologies.
The emphasis is on spin waves, quantum information, recent tests of quantum physics and decoherence. The book provides a large amount of information without unbalancing the flow of the main ideas by laborious detail.

The presentation in the new edition of this well-reviewed textbook is clear and goes to the core of the questions The balance between principles, concepts and applications is optimal The material presented is touching active areas of physics Supplies new views on decoherence, entanglement and path integral formulation of quantum mechanics Gives background needed to understand quantum cryptography, teleportation and computation Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Daniel Bes is Emeritus Professor in the Facultad de Ingeniera y Ciencias Exactas y Naturales and Consultant to the Universidad Favaloro, Argentina. He is also Emeritus Researcher at the Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica, Argentina.

Inhalt
Introduction.- The Principles of Quantum Mechanics.- Other Consequences of the Basic Principles.- The Heisenberg Realization of Quantum.- The Schroedinger Realization of Quantum Physics.- Angular Momenta.- Three-Dimensional Hamiltonian.- Many-Body Problems.- Approximate Solutions to Quantum Problems.- Time-Dependence in Quantum Mechanics.- Broken Symmetries.- Entanglement and Experimental Tests of Quantum Mechanics.- Quantum Information.- Other Formulations of Quantum Mechanics: the Density Matrix and the Path Integral.- The Classical and Quantum Realities. Decoherence and Measurements.- A Brief History of Quantum Mechanics.