Advanced Quantum Mechanics Materials and Photons /

• Main Author: Dick, Rainer (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2016.
• Series: Graduate Texts in Physics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum physics.; Quantum optics.; Nanoscale science.; Nanoscience.; Nanostructures.; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Nanotechnology.; Quantum Physics.; Quantum Optics.; Optical and Electronic Materials.; Nanoscale Science and Technology.

In this updated and expanded second edition of a well-received and invaluable textbook, Prof. Dick emphasizes the importance of advanced quantum mechanics for materials science and all experimental techniques which employ photon absorption, emission, or scattering. Important aspects of introductory...

Table of Contents:

• The Need for Quantum Mechanics
• Self-adjoint Operators and Eigenfunction Expansions
• Simple Model Systems
• Notions from Linear Algebra and Bra-Ket Formalism
• Formal Developments
• Harmonic Oscillators and Coherent States
• Central Forces in Quantum Mechanics
• Spin and Addition of Angular Momentum Type Operators
• Stationary Perturbations in Quantum Mechanics
• Quantum Aspects of Materials I
• Scattering Off Potentials
• The Density of States
• Time-Dependent Perturbations in Quantum Mechanics
• Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics
• Coupling to Electromagnetic Fields
• Principles of Lagrangian Field Theory
• Non-relativistic Quantum Field Theory
• Quantization of the Maxwell Field: Photons
• Quantum Aspects of Materials II
• Dimensional Effects in Low-dimensional Systems
• Relativistic Quantum Fields
• Applications of Spinor QED.