This book contains discussions of radiation theory, quantum statistics and the many-body problem, and more advanced topics in collision theory. It is intended as a text for a first-year graduate quantum mechanics course.
Autorentext
Gottfried, Kurt
Klappentext
First Published in 2018. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Zusammenfassung
This book is a very early systematic treatment of the application of the field-theoretical methods developed after the Second World War to the quantum mechanical many-body problem at finite temperature. It describes various techniques that remain basic tools of modern condensed matter physicists.
Inhalt
Publisher's Foreword -- Advanced Book Classics -- Vita -- Special Preface -- Preface -- Uncertainty and Complementarity -- Wave Mechanics -- Illustrative Solutions of Schrödinger's Equation -- The Measurement Process and the Statistical Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics -- States and Observables. Transformation Theory -- Symmetries -- Stationary State Perturbation Theory -- The Electromagnetic Field -- Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory -- Appendix