Quantum
Subtitle: The Quantum Theory of Particles, Fields and Cosmology
By: by Edgard Elbaz
Series: Texts and Monographs in Physics; Texts and monographs in physics
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 602
ISBN-13: 9783642643279; 9783642602665
Subjects: Quantum theory; Astronomy; Physics
Description: This textbook represents a new approach in the teaching of quantum physics. The first seven chapters present nonrelativistic quantum mechanics and its interpretation as well as perturbations and scattering theory. They include Dirac's and Feynman's formalisms. The chapter on symmetry treats gauge transformations, too. The quantum theory of angular momentum includes the isospin of leptons and quarks. It uses as a new tool the graphical spin algebra. The second part of the book is devoted to quantum fields: Boson fields including Higgs fields, Dirac's theory of Fermion fields, quantum electrodynamic and quantum chromodynamics. A brief review is appended to raise the students' interests in quantum cosmology. The readers will also find many detailed worked examples and many problems to test their own understanding.
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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Particle and Waves; title: Wave Mechanics; title: One-Dimensional Systems; title: Dirac Formalism; title: Representations; title: Quantum Dynamics (Q.D.); title: Path Integrals; title: Symmetries and Invariances; title: Angular Momentum; title: Addition Theorems; title: Rotations; title: Spherical Harmonics; title: Irreducible Tensor Operators; title: Perturbations; title: Scattering of Particles; title: Second Quantization; title: Boson Fields; title: Fermion Fields; title: Quantum X-Dynamics; title: Quantum Cosmology.