Quantum Mechanics in Matrix Form

• Main Author: Ludyk, Günter (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Quantum physics.; Atomic structure .; Molecular structure .; Physics.; Quantum Physics.; Atomic/Molecular Structure and Spectra.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.

This book gives an introduction to quantum mechanics with the matrix method. Heisenberg's matrix mechanics is described in detail. The fundamental equations are derived by algebraic methods using matrix calculus. Only a brief description of Schrödinger's wave mechanics is given (in most b...

Table of Contents:

• Preface and Introduction
• Quantum Theory Before 1925
• Heisenberg 1925
• Expansion of the Matrices Method
• Observables and Uncertainty Relations
• Harmonic Oscillator
• Pauli and the Hydrogen Atom
• Spin
• Atoms in Electromagnetic Fields
• Systems of Several Particles
• Equivalence of Matrix with Wave Mechanics
• Relativistic Quantum Mechanics.