Here is a readable and intuitive quantum mechanics text that covers scattering theory, relativistic quantum mechanics, and field theory. This expanded and updated Second Edition – with five new chapters – emphasizes the concrete and calculable over the abstract and pure, and helps turn students into researchers without diminishing their sense of wonder at physics and nature.
As a one-year graduate-level course, Quantum Mechanics II: A Second Course in Quantum Theory leads from quantum basics to basic field theory, and lays the foundation for research-oriented specialty courses. Used selectively, the material can be tailored to create a one-semester course in advanced topics. In either case, it addresses a broad audience of students in the physical sciences, as well as independent readers – whether advanced undergraduates or practicing scientists.
Table of Content
Partial table of contents:
SCATTERING AND INTEGRAL QUANTUM MECHANICS.
Scattering.
Currents and Cross Sections.
Partial-Wave Expansions.
Scattering Applications: Lengths, Resonances, Coulomb.
Transition and Potential Matrices.
Formal Quantum Mechanics.
Spin Theory.
Path Integrals and Lattice Quantum Mechanics.
RELATIVISTIC QUANTUM MECHANICS.
Dirac Equation.
Components of Dirac Wave Functions.
Interactions in Dirac Theory.
QUANTUM FIELDS.
Second Quantization.
Quantized Electromagnetic Fields.
Weak Fields.
Wave Equations from Field Theory.
MANY-BODY THEORY.
Many-Body Problems.
Statistical Help with Many-Body Problems.
Phonons.
Fermion Pairing.
Appendices.
References.
Index.
About the author
Rubin H. Landau, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Physics at Oregon State University in Corvallis. He teaches the course in computational physics, helps direct the Northwest Alliance for Computational Science and Engineering, and has been using computers in theoretical physics research for the past 30 years. The author of more than 70 refereed publications, he is the author of Computational Physics and A Scientist’s and Engineer’s Guide to Workstations and Supercomputers, both available from Wiley.
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