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Advanced quantum mechanics - Sakurai J.J

 Textbook information
  • Text book title            : Advanced quantum mechanics
  • Author                         : Sakurai J.J
  • ISBN                           : 9780201539295
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  • File size                     : 3.62 Mb
  • File format                : DjVu File
  • Total No. of pages    : 344 pages







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Chapter 1 Classical Fields
  • 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
Chapter 2 The Quantum Theory of Radiation
  • 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
Chapter 3 Relativistic Quantum Mechanics of Spin-J Particles
  • 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
Chapter 4 Covariant Perturbation Theory
  • 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 A Electrodynamics in the radiation (Coulomb) gauge 301
  • 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
Bibliography 323
Index 327