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Quantum mechanics : a modern development / Leslie E. Ballentine, Simon Fraser University, Canada.

By: Ballentine, Leslie E [author.].
Material type: TextTextPublisher: [Hackensack,] New Jersey : World Scientific, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 2nd edition.Description: xv, 722 pages : USD 115.00 illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789814578578 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9814578576 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9789814578585 (pbk); 9814578584 (pbk).Subject(s): Quantum theoryDDC classification: 530.12
Contents:
Mathematical prerequisites -- The formulation of quantum mechanics -- Kinematics and dynamics -- Coordinate representation and applications -- Momentum representation and applications -- The harmonic oscillator -- Angular momentum -- State preparation and determination -- Measurement and the interpretation of states -- Charged particle in a magnetic field -- Time-dependent phenomena -- Discrete symmetries -- The classical limit -- Quantum mechanics in phase space -- Scattering -- Identical particles -- Many-fermion systems -- Quantum mechanics of the electromagnetic field -- Bell's theorem and its consequences -- Quantum information.
List(s) this item appears in: 2023-11-30

Includes bibliographical references (pages 699-703) and index.

Mathematical prerequisites -- The formulation of quantum mechanics -- Kinematics and dynamics -- Coordinate representation and applications -- Momentum representation and applications -- The harmonic oscillator -- Angular momentum -- State preparation and determination -- Measurement and the interpretation of states -- Charged particle in a magnetic field -- Time-dependent phenomena -- Discrete symmetries -- The classical limit -- Quantum mechanics in phase space -- Scattering -- Identical particles -- Many-fermion systems -- Quantum mechanics of the electromagnetic field -- Bell's theorem and its consequences -- Quantum information.