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Advanced Quantum Mechanics: A Practical Guide
Author(s): Yuli V. Nazarov (Author), Jeroen Danon (Author)
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date: 3 Jan. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 368 pages
- ISBN-10: 0521761506
- ISBN-13: 9780521761505
Book Description
An accessible introduction to advanced quantum theory, this graduate-level textbook focuses on its practical applications rather than mathematical technicalities. It treats real-life examples, from topics ranging from quantum transport to nanotechnology, to equip students with a toolbox of theoretical techniques. Beginning with second quantization, the authors illustrate its use with different condensed matter physics examples. They then explain how to quantize classical fields, with a focus on the electromagnetic field, taking students from Maxwell’s equations to photons, coherent states and absorption and emission of photons. Following this is a unique master-level presentation on dissipative quantum mechanics, before the textbook concludes with a short introduction to relativistic quantum mechanics, covering the Dirac equation and a relativistic second quantization formalism. The textbook includes 70 end-of-chapter problems. Solutions to some problems are given at the end of the chapter and full solutions to all problems are available for instructors at www.cambridge.org/9780521761505.
