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Subject(s)

• Quantum theory [Browse]

Related name

• Yan, Tung-mow [Browse]

Series

Graduate texts in contemporary physics [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Complementarity and Uncertainty
• The Uncertainty Principle
• Superposition
• Two-Particle States
• Two-Particle Interferometry
• EPR Correlations
• The Discovery of Quantum Mechanics
• The Formal Framework
• The Formal Language: Hilbert Space
• Hilbert Space
• Dirac's Notation
• Operators
• Unitary Transformations
• Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
• States and Probabilities
• Quantum States
• Measurement Outcomes
• Mixtures and the Density Matrix
• Entangled States
• The Wigner Distribution
• Canonical Quantization
• The Canonical Commutation Rules
• Schrodinger Wave Functions
• Uncertainty Relations
• The Equations of Motion
• The Schrodinger Picture
• The Heisenberg Picture
• Time Development of Expectation Values
• Time-Energy Uncertainty
• The Interaction Picture
• Symmetries and Conservation Laws
• Symmetries and Unitary Transformations
• Spatial Translations
• Symmetry Groups
• Rotations
• Space Reflection and Parity
• Gauge Invariance
• Propagators and Green's Functions
• Propagators
• Green's Functions
• The Free Particle Propagator and Green's Function
• Perturbation Theory
• The Path Integral
• The Feynman Path Integral
• The Free-Particle Path Integral
• Semiclassical Quantum Mechanics
• Hamilton-Jacobi Theory
• The Semiclassical Wave Function
• The Semiclassical Propagator
• Derivations
• Basic Tools
• Angular Momentum: The Spectrum
• Orbital Angular Momentum
• Spin
• Spin 1/2
• Spin 1
• Arbitrary Spins
• Free-Particle States.

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ISBN

• 0387955763 ((acid-free paper))
• 9780387955766 ((acid-free paper))
• 0387220232
• 9780387220239

LCCN

2002030571

OCLC

50478495

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