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040			_aNISER LIBRARY _beng _cNISER LIBRARY
041			_aEnglish
082			_a530.145 _bGOT-Q
100			_aGottfried, Kurt
245			_aQuantum mechanics : _bfundamentals
250			_a2nd ed.
260			_aNew York : _bSpringer, _c2003.
300			_axv, 620 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
440			_aGraduate texts in contemporary physics
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aQuantum mechanics was already an old and solidly established subject when the first edition of this book appeared in 1966. The context in which a graduate text on quantum mechanics is studied today has changed a good deal, however. In 1966, most entering physics graduate students had a quite limited exposure to quan­ tum mechanics in the form of wave mechanics. Today the standard undergraduate curriculum contains a large dose of elementary quantum mechanics, and often intro­ duces the abstract formalism due to Dirac. Back then, the study of the foundations by theorists and experimenters was close to dormant, and very few courses spent any time whatever on this topic. At that very time, however, John Bell's famous theorem broke the ice, and there has been a great flowering ever since, especially in the laboratory thanks to the development of quantum optics, and more recently because of the interest in quantum computing. And back then, the Feynman path integral was seen by most as a veryimaginative but rather useless formulation of quantum mechanics, whereas it now plays a large role in statistical physics and quantum field theory, especially in computational work. For these and other reasons, this book is not just a revision of the 1966 edition. It has been rewritten throughout, is differently organized, and goes into greater depth on many topics that were in the old edition.
650			_aQuantum theory
650			_aQuantum Physics
650			_aDirac equation
650			_aElementary particle physics
650			_aParticle physics
650			_aQuantum mechanics
650			_aRelativistic quantum mechanics
700			_aYan, Tung-mow
856			_3Table of contents _uhttps://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bfm:978-0-387-21623-2/1
856			_3Reviews _uhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2756133-quantum-mechanics#CommunityReviews
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