Lectures in quantum mechanics: a two-term course

by Picasso, Luigi E.

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Full title :Lectures in quantum mechanics : a two-term course / Luigi E. Picasso.

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Publication Date:2016

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Publisher(s):Springer
Place of Publication:Cham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016

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Description:x, 354 pages ; : 24 cm.

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ISBN:9783319226316, 3319226312
oclc:ocn946456700
LC Classification:QC174.12
Dewey Decimal:530.1/2

The crisis of classical physics. Atomic models ; The problems of atomic size and radiative collapse ; Difficulties related with heat capacities ; Photoelectric effect -- From Einstein to de Broglie. Photons ; Compton effect ; General features of spectra. Bohr Hypotheses ; Hydrogen energy levels according to Bohr ; Energy levels for an iscillator and for a particle in a segment ; Einstein and Debye theories for the heat capacities of solids ; Heat capacities of gases ; Wave-like behaviour of particles : the Bragg and Davisson Germer experiments -- Introduction to the postulates of quantum mechanics. Introduction ; The Mach-Zehnder interferometer ; One photon interference experiments ; Description of the polarization states of a photon ; Discussion of experiments with polaroid sheets ; Compatible and incompatible measurements : Heisenberg uncertainty relation -- The postulates of quantum mechanics ; The superposition principle ; Observables ; Transition probabilities ; Consequences and von Neumann postulate ; Operators associated with observables ; Properties of the operators associated with observables ; Digression on dirac notation ; Mean values ; Pure states and statistical mixtu…