Advanced quantum mechanics - Sakurai J.J
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- Text book title : Advanced quantum mechanics
- Author : Sakurai J.J
- ISBN : 9780201539295
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- Total No. of pages : 344 pages
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Chapter 1 Classical Fields
Index 327
- 1-1 Particles and fields 1
- 1-2 Discrete and continuous mechanical systems 3
- 1-3 Classical scalar fields 5
- 1-4 Classical Maxwell fields 12
- 1-5 Vector potentials in quantum mechanics 15
- 2-1 Classical radiation field 20
- 2-2 Creation, annihilation, and number operators 23
- 2-3 Quantized radiation field 29
- 2-4 Emission and absorption of photons by atoms 36
- 2-5 Rayleigh scattering, Thomson scattering, and the Raman effect 47
- 2-6 Radiation damping and resonance fluorescence 53
- 2-7 Dispersion relations and causality 57
- 2-8 The self-energy of a bound electron; the Lamb shift 64
- 3-1 Probability conservation in relativistic quantum mechanics 75
- 3-2 The Dirac equation 78
- 3-3 Simple solutions; nonrelativistic approximations; plane waves 85
- 3-4 Relativistic covariance 95
- 3-5 Bilinear covariants 104
- 3-6 Dirac operators in the Heisenberg representation 112
- 3-7 Ztiterbewegung and negative-energy solutions 117
- 3-8 Central force problems; the hydrogen atom 122
- 3-9 Hole theory and charge conjugation 131
- 3-10 Quantization of the Dirac field 143
- 3-11 Weak interactions and parity nonconservation; the two-component
- neutrino 156
- 4-1 Natural units and dimensions 179
- 4-2 S-matrix expansion in the interaction representation 181
- 4-3 First-order processes; Mott scattering and hypcron decay 18
- 4-4 Two-photon annihilation and Compton scattering; the electron propagator 204
- 4-5 Feynman's space-time approach to the electron propagator 231
- 4-6 Mplier scattering and the photon propagator; one-meson exchange interactions 242
- 4-7 Mass and charge renormalization; radiative corrections 267
- Appendix B Gamma matrices 305
- Appendix C Pauli's fundamental theorem 308
- Appendix D Formulas and rules in covariant perturbation theor
- Appendix E Feynman integrals; the computations of the self-energy and theanomalous magnetic moment of the electron 315
Index 327