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Covering the fundamentals as well as many special topics of current interest, this is the most concise, up-to-date, and accessible graduate-level textbook on quantum mechanics available. Written by Gerald Mahan, a distinguished research physicist and author of an acclaimed textbook on many-particle physics, Quantum Mechanics in a Nutshell is the distillation of many years' teaching experience.

Emphasizing the use of quantum mechanics to describe actual quantum systems such as atoms and solids, and rich with interesting applications, the book proceeds from solving for the...

These proceedings of the workshop on quantum probability held in Heidelberg, September 26-30, 1988 contains a representative selection of research articles on quantum stochastic processes, quantum stochastic calculus, quantum noise, geometry, quantum probability, quantum central limit theorems and quantum statistical mechanics.

The Session was intended to give a broad survey of the mathematical problems arising in the chaotic transition of deterministic dynamical systems, both in classical and quantum mechanics.
The lectures of Mather and Forni thoroughly cover the area- preserving twist maps, and include an up-to-date version of the Aubry-Mather theory.
The lectures of Bellissard describe the quantum aspects: classical limit, localization, spectral properties of the relevant Schrodinger operators and thus represent an exhaus- tive introduction to the mathematics of "quantum chaos."
The lectures of Degli...

Are you looking for a concise summary of the theory of Schrodinger operators? Here it is. Emphasizing the progress made in the last decade by Lieb, Enss, Witten and others, the three authors don t just cover general properties, but also detail multiparticle quantum mechanics including bound states of Coulomb systems and scattering theory. This corrected and extended reprint contains updated references as well as notes on the development in the field over the past twenty years.

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This volume introduces the basic philosophical and conceptual questions underlying the formulation of quantum mechanics, one of the most baffling and far-reaching aspects of modern physics. Chapters by leading thinkers in this field, inspired by the profound work of the late John Bell, debate some of the deepest issues concerning the nature of physical reality, including the theory of physical measurements, how to test quantum mechanics, and how classical and quantum physics are related. This book will engage students with a background in quantum physics who wish to explore in more detail its...

This book presents the hotly debated question of whether quantum mechanics plays a non-trivial role in biology. In a timely way, it sets out a distinct quantum biology agenda. The burgeoning fields of nanotechnology, biotechnology, quantum technology, and quantum information processing are now strongly converging. The acronym BINS, for Bio-Info-Nano-Systems, has been coined to describe the synergetic interface of these several disciplines. The living cell is an information replicating and processing system that is replete with naturally-evolved nanomachines, which at some level require a...

Quantum Mechanics And Its Applications Are A Vibrant, Central Part Of Today'S Research In Both Experimental And Theoretical Physics. Designed For The One-Semester Course, Quantum Mechanics Expertly Guides Students Through Rigorous Course Material, Providing Comprehensive Explanations, Accessible Examples, And Intuitive Equations. This Text'S In-Depth Coverage Of Essential Topics, Such As Harmonic Oscillator, Barrier Penetration, And Hydrogen Atoms, Skillfully Bridges The Gap Between Sophomore Introduction Texts And Lower-Level Graduate Treatments. Students Will Find This User-Friendly Text,...

This biography tells of the life of Murray Gell-Mann, the 1969 Nobel Prize winner for physics. He entered Yale University at 15 years old and revolutionized physics and the way we see the world by the time he was 23. His discovery of the quark was the cornerstone of particle physics.

L'ouvrage traite d'un concept particulierement attractif du cours de mecanique quantique avance, c'est a dire les symetries. Apres une breve introduction aux symetries en mecanique classique, le texte s'attache a leur place en mecanique quantique, aux consequences de la symetrie de rotation, ainsi qu'a la theorie generale des groupes de Lie. Les groupes isospin, l'hypercharge SU(3), et leurs applications sont traites avant les chapitres sur les quarks et leur charme, SU(4), ainsi que les symetries dynamiques et les frontieres de la recherche en physique des particules. Ce texte unique...

L'ouvrage Mecanique Quantique - Introduction - jette les bases du cours de mecanique quantique et de la theorie des champs. En partant de la radiation du corps noir, de l'effet photoelectrique et de la dualite onde - particule, l'auteur expose les relations de l'incertitude, le spin, et les systemes a plusieurs corps. Il inclut les applications a l'atome d'hydrogene et les experiences de Stern-Gerlach, et de Einstein-de Haas. Sont aussi presentes en details l'aspect mathematique de la theorie de representation, les matrices S, la theorie de la pertubation, les problemes des valeurs...

The increasing pervasiveness and accuracy of sensors, unprecedented automation of data collection, extremely cheap storage and rapid dissemination of data by communication networks have enabled researchers to think about deploying swarms of cooperating robotic agents for various applications. However, the conception of such large-scale systems is contigent on efficient methods to deal with an explosion of data. Thus the main challenge in this field has shifted from difficulties in manufacturing to the lack of theoretical foundations for provably correct design and deployment.
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The 1927 Solvay conference was perhaps the most important in the history of quantum theory. Contrary to popular belief, questions of interpretation were not settled at this conference. Instead, a range of sharply conflicting views were extensively discussed, including de Broglie s pilot-wave theory (which de Broglie presented for a many-body system), Born and Heisenberg s quantum mechanics (which apparently lacked wave function collapse or fundamental time evolution), and Schrodinger s wave mechanics. Today, there is no longer a dominant interpretation of quantum theory, so it is important to...

This book consists of the lectures for a two-semester course on quantum field theory, and as such is presented in a quite informal and personal manner. The course starts with relativistic one-particle systems, and develops the basics of quantum field theory with an analysis of the representations of the Poincar group. Canonical quantization is carried out for scalar, fermion, Abelian and non-Abelian gauge theories. Covariant quantization of gauge theories is also carried out with a detailed description of the BRST symmetry. The Higgs phenomenon and the standard model of electroweak...

Symmetries in Atomic Nuclei aims to present an overview of recent applications of symmetry to the description of atomic nuclei. Special care is given to a pedagogical introduction of symmetry concepts using simple examples. After a historical overview of the applications of symmetry in nuclear physics, progress in the field during the last decade is reviewed. Special emphasis is put on the introduction of neutron-proton and boson-fermion degrees of freedom. Their combination leads to a supersymmetric description of pairs and quartets of nuclei.

Both theoretical aspects and...

This article is dedicated to Claudio Bunster on the occasion of his 60th birthday. It is a great honor to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to him, who in my opinion has been the greatest national physicist ever, for his wise guidance and intrepid support through the years. As a Chilean, I can further tell that Claudio s contributions have been well far beyond theoretical physics, helping our country to be ready to face future challenges through science. Gravity in diverse dimensions is a subject in which Claudio has done major c- tributions, encouraging in many ways the following...

Taking a conceptual approach to the subject, Concepts in Quantum Mechanics provides complete coverage of both basic and advanced topics. Following in the footsteps of Dirac s classic work Principles of Quantum Mechanics, it explains all themes from first principles.

The authors present alternative ways of representing the state of a physical system, outline the mathematical connection between the representatives of the same state in different representations, and highlight the connection between Dirac brackets and their integral forms in the...

In this book, we discuss the path integral quantization and the stochastic quantization of classical mechanics and classical field theory. Forthe description ofthe classical theory, we have two methods, one based on the Lagrangian formalism and the other based on the Hamiltonian formal ism. The Hamiltonian formalism is derived from the Lagrangian.formalism. In the standard formalism ofquantum mechanics, we usually make use ofthe Hamiltonian formalism. This fact originates from the following circumstance which dates back to the birth of quantum mechanics. The first formalism ofquantum...