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Cover
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Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Table of Contents
Preface
PRELIMINARIES
P.1. Quantum Conditions
Example P.1. The Planck quantum hypothesis
Example P.2. The quantization rule for oscillatory motion
Example P.3. The quantization rule for translational motion
Example P.4. The quantization rule for elliptical motion
Solved problems
P.2. The Particle Nature of Waves
Example P.5. Inelastic collision of a photon with a free electron
Example P.6. Elastic collision of a photon with a free electron
Example P.7. Motion of waves and particles
Solved problems
P.3. The Wave Nature of Particles
Example P.8. The wave representation of an atomic electron
Example P.9. Equation of the de Broglie wave propagation
Example P.10. Phase velocity of the de Broglie wave
Solved problems
Chapter 1 WAVE FUNCTIONS AND THE FIRST POSTULATE
1.1. Wave Packet Representation of a Particle
Example 1.1. Wave packets
Example 1.2. Statistical interpretation of position
Solved problems
1.2. The Uncertainty Principle
Example 1.3. The Heisenberg microscope
Solved problems
1.3. The Wave Function Space
Example 1.4. The Dirac 5-function
Example 1.5. Vector spaces
Solved problems
1.4. The First Postulate
Example 1.6. Two-slit experiment with particles
Example 1.7. The Dirac notation
Solved problems
Chapter 2 OPERATORS AND THE SECOND POSTULATE
2.1. The Second Postulate
Example 2.1. Angular momentum in spherical polar coordinates
Example 2.2. The Hamiltonian in a central force field
Solved problems
2.2. The Momentum Representation
Example 2.3. Momentum representation of oscillatory motion
Solved problems
2.3. Linear Operators
Example 2.4. Integral representation of operators
Example 2.5. The rule of symmetrization in xi. and pi
Solved problems
2.4. Hermitian Operators
Example 2.6. Anti-Hermitian operators
Example 2.7. Unitary operators
Solved problems
Chapter 3 EIGENSTATES AND THE THIRD POSTULATE
3.1. The Eigenvalue Problem
Example 3.1. Degeneracy
Example 3.2. The eigenvalue problem for momentum
Example 3.3. The eigenvalue problem for position
Solved problems
3.2. The Third Postulate
Example 3.4. The projection operator
Solved problems
3.3. The Matrix Eigenvalue Problem
Example 3.5. Diagonalization of a matrix
Solved problems
3.4. Matrix xepresentations
Solved problems
Chapter 4 COMMUTATION RELATIONS AND THE FOURTH POSTULATE
4.1. Commutator Algebra
Example 4.1. Functions of non-commuting operators
Solved problems
4.2. The Fourth Postulate
Example 4.2. The Poisson brackets
Example 4.3. Commutation relations for angular momentum
Example 4.4. Unitary transformations of physical observables
Solved problems
4.3. Compatibility between Physical Observables
Example 4.5. Removal of degeneracy
Example 4.6. Minimum uncertainty states
Solved problems
Chapter 5 TEMPORAL EVOLUTION AND THE FIFTH POSTULATE
5.1. The Heisenberg Description
Example 5.1. Temporal evolution of position and momentum
Solved problems
5.2. The Fifth Postulate
Example 5.2. The continuity equation for probability
Example 5.3. The classical limit of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation
Solved problems
5.3. The Equivalence between the Schrodinger and Heisenberg Descriptions
Example 5.4. The energy-time uncertainty relation
Solved problems
5.4. The Schrödinger Equation for Stationary States
Example 5.5. The classical limit of the time-independent Schrödinger equation
Example 5.6. The energy representation of oscillatory motion
Solved problems
Chapter 6 ONE-DIMENSIONAL ΜΟHΟΝ
6.1. Energy Eigenstates in One Dimension
Example 6.1. Motion in a constant potential energy
Example 6.2. The WKB approximation
Solved problems
6.2. The Energy Spectrum for Discontinuous Potentials
Example 6.3. Bound states in the square well potential energy
Example 6.4. The tunnel effect
Example 6.5. Energy bands in a one-dimensional array
Solved problems
6.3. The Linear Harmonic Motion
Example 6.6. The Hermite polynomials
Example 6.7. The harmonic oscillator in the Heisenberg description
Solved problems
Chapter 7 ELECTRON MOTION IN THE ATOM
7.1. Rotational Motion for a Single Particle
Example 7.1. Legendre polynomials
Solved problems
7.2. Radial Motion in Central Force Field
Example 7.2. Confluent hypergeometric functions
Example 7.3. Radial motion of a free particle
Solved problems
7.3. One-Electron Atoms
Solved problems
7.4. The Magnetic Moment of the Electron
Example 7.4. Classical motion in electric and magnetic fields
Example 7.5. One-electron atoms in a uniform magnetic field
Solved problems
Chapter 8 ANGULAR MOMENTUM
8.1. The Matrix xigenvalue Problem for Angular Momentum
Example 8.1. Rotation properties of vector observables
Example 8.2. Spherical harmonic eigenstates of angular momentum
Example 8.3. Matrix representation of orbital angular momentum
Solved problems
8.2. Electron Spin
Solved problems
8.3. Addition of Angular Momenta
Example 8.4. Representation of angular momenta for l = 1 and
Example 8.5. The vector model of angular momentum
Solved problems
8.4. Spin Magnetic Moment
Example 8.6. Spin-orbit interaction
Solved problems
Chapter 9 APPROXIMATE METHODS
9.1. Stationary State Perturbation Theory
Example 9.1. The anharmonic oscillator
Example 9.2. The Dalgarno perturbation method
Example 9.3. Splitting of a twofold degenerate state
Solved problems
9.2. The Variational Method
Example 9.4. Variational calculation of the ground state of hydrogen
Example 9.5. Variational calculation of the first excited state of hydrogen
Solved problems
9.3. Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory
Example 9.6. The Fermi golden rule
Solved problems
Chapter 10 MANY-PARTICLE SYSTEMS
10.1. The Pauli Exclusion Principle
Example 10.1. The principle of indistinguishability
Example 10.2. Wave functions for a two-particle system
Solved problems
10.2. The Helium Atom
Example 10.3. Variational calculation of the ground state of helium
Solved problems
10.3. Multielectron Atoms
Example 10.4. The Hartree-Fock approximation
Example 10.5. Electron configuration of the low Z atoms
Example 10.6. The jj coupling interaction
Solved problems
10.4. The ehele Model of the Nucleus
Example 10.7. Magnetic hyperfine interactions
Solved problems
Chapter 11 ATOMIC RADIATION
11.1. Radiative Transitions
Example 11.1. Selection rules for electric dipole transitions
Example 11.2. Polarization and intensity of atomic radiation
Solved problems
11.2. Spontaneous Emission
Example 11.3. Amplification of radiation
Solved problems
11.3. Magnetic Resonance
Example 11.4. Electron resonance transitions in hydrogen
Solved problems
Chapter 12 NUCLEAR RADIATION
12.1. Radioactive Decay Law
Solved problems
12.2. Alpha Decay
Solved problems
12.3. Beta Decay
Solved problems
12.4. Gamma Radiation
Example 12.1. Nuclear gamma resonance
Solved problems
Further Reading
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