Quantum Physics: Volume 1 - From Basics to Symmetries and Perturbations
Preface xiii
1 Origin of Main Quantum Concepts 1
2 Wave Function and the Simplest Problems 25
3 Bound States 43
4 Dynamical Variables 67
5 Uncertainty Relations 85
6 Hilbert Space and Operators 119
7 Quantum Dynamics 153
8 Discrete Symmetries 187
9 One-Dimensional Motion: Continuum 217
10 Variational Approach and Diagonalization 247
11 Discrete Spectrum and Harmonic Oscillator 267
12 Coherent and Squeezed States 293
13 Introducing Magnetic Field 315
14 Macroscopic Quantum Coherence 339
15 Semiclassical (WKB) Approximation 357
16 Angular Momentum and Spherical Functions 387
17 Motion in a Central Field 417
18 Hydrogen Atom 445
19 Stationary Perturbations 469
20 Spin 1/2 489
21 Finite Rotations and Tensor Operators 509
22 Angular Momentum Coupling 523
23 Fine and Hyperfine structure 545
24 Atom in a Static Field 567
References 587
Further Readings 591
Index 597
Vladimir Zelevinsky is Professor at the Department of Physica and Astronomy and National Superconducting Cyclotron laboratory at Michigan State University, USA. He graduated from Moscow University and worked for many years at the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk where he got his Candidate of Science and highest Doctor of Science degrees (equivalent to a PhD). In the eighties he was Head of Theory Division at the Budker Institute and Head of Theoretical Physics at Novosibirsk University. He spent three years as a visiting professor at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. He is the author of over 200 scientific publications, co-editor of the EPL journal and Associate Editor of the Nuclear Physics journal. He has also received many awards as the best teacher at MSU.
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