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Full Description
An impressively comprehensive textbook adopting a phenomenological approach to quantum physics. The chapters cover everything from basic definitions of key concepts to detailed discussions of the underlying theoretical framework, walking students step-by-step through the necessary mathematics and drawing clear connections between the theory and the most important modern research applications including quantum optics, fluids, nanophysics, entanglement, information, and relativity. With this book, students and researchers will have access to hundreds of real-world examples, exercises, and illustrations to support and expand their understanding. Instructors can tailor the content to suit the length and level of their course and will have access to an online solutions manual with fully worked solutions to all 300+ exercises in the book. Other online resources include Python simulations, additional exercises, and detailed appendices.
Contents
Preface; Constants, Notation, Units and Dimensions; 1. What is quantum physics?; 2. Early quantisation: of light--matter interactions; 3. Light absorption and emission: Einstein's coefficients; 4. Modern aspects of photons; 5. De Broglie's hypothesis and Heisenberg's spatial inequality; 6. Schrödinger's equation: scattering (or free) states; 7. Tunnelling and one-dimensional scattering; 8. Confinement and bound states; 9. Harmonic oscillators; 10. Coupled oscillators or quantum wells; 11. The transfer matrix approach; 12. Rotation and angular momentum; 13. Two-state systems and spin; 14. Postulates and formalism of quantum physics; 15. Sy indistinguishability and identical systems; 16. Symmetries and conservation laws; 17. Conservative systems; 18. Combination of angular momenta; 19. Stationary perturbations and approximation methods; 20. Atoms and molecules; 21. Quantum description of solids; 22. Reduced-dimensional systems and nanophysics; 23. Nuclei and 'Particles': clusters; 24. Quantum scattering in three dimensions; 25. Non-conservative systems: induced transitions and relaxation; 26. Entanglement, measurement and decoherence; 27. Electromagnetic field quantisation; 28. Quantum physics and special relativity; Afterword; Further reading; Glossary; Index.
