Ebook: Quantum: The Quantum Theory of Particles, Fields and Cosmology

This textbook represents a new approach in the teaching of quantum physics. The first seven chapters present nonrelativistic quantum mechanics and its interpretation as well as perturbations and scattering theory. They include Dirac's and Feynman's formalisms. The chapter on symmetry treats gauge transformations, too. The quantum theory of angular momentum includes the isospin of leptons and quarks. It uses as a new tool the graphical spin algebra. The second part of the book is devoted to quantum fields: Boson fields including Higgs fields, Dirac's theory of Fermion fields, quantum electrodynamic and quantum chromodynamics. A brief review is appended to raise the students' interests in quantum cosmology.
The readers will also find many detailed worked examples and many problems to test their own understanding.

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This textbook represents a new approach in the teaching of quantum physics. The first seven chapters present nonrelativistic quantum mechanics and its interpretation as well as perturbations and scattering theory. They include Dirac's and Feynman's formalisms. The chapter on symmetry treats gauge transformations, too. The quantum theory of angular momentum includes the isospin of leptons and quarks. It uses as a new tool the graphical spin algebra. The second part of the book is devoted to quantum fields: Boson fields including Higgs fields, Dirac's theory of Fermion fields, quantum electrodynamic and quantum chromodynamics. A brief review is appended to raise the students' interests in quantum cosmology.
The readers will also find many detailed worked examples and many problems to test their own understanding.

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This textbook represents a new approach in the teaching of quantum physics. The first seven chapters present nonrelativistic quantum mechanics and its interpretation as well as perturbations and scattering theory. They include Dirac's and Feynman's formalisms. The chapter on symmetry treats gauge transformations, too. The quantum theory of angular momentum includes the isospin of leptons and quarks. It uses as a new tool the graphical spin algebra. The second part of the book is devoted to quantum fields: Boson fields including Higgs fields, Dirac's theory of Fermion fields, quantum electrodynamic and quantum chromodynamics. A brief review is appended to raise the students' interests in quantum cosmology.
The readers will also find many detailed worked examples and many problems to test their own understanding.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XVII
Particles and Waves....Pages 1-47
Wave Mechanics....Pages 49-79
One-Dimensional Systems....Pages 81-102
Dirac Formalism....Pages 103-126
Representations....Pages 127-152
Quantum Dynamics....Pages 153-173
Path Integrals....Pages 175-189
Symmetries and Invariances....Pages 191-210
Angular Momentum....Pages 211-235
Addition Theorems....Pages 237-267
Rotations....Pages 269-290
Spherical Harmonics....Pages 291-314
Irreducible Tensor Operators....Pages 315-359
Perturbations....Pages 361-389
Scattering of Particles....Pages 391-415
Second Quantization....Pages 417-465
Boson Fields....Pages 467-482
Fermion Fields....Pages 483-510
Quantum X-Dynamics....Pages 511-538
Quantum Cosmology....Pages 539-572
Back Matter....Pages 573-603

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This textbook represents a new approach in the teaching of quantum physics. The first seven chapters present nonrelativistic quantum mechanics and its interpretation as well as perturbations and scattering theory. They include Dirac's and Feynman's formalisms. The chapter on symmetry treats gauge transformations, too. The quantum theory of angular momentum includes the isospin of leptons and quarks. It uses as a new tool the graphical spin algebra. The second part of the book is devoted to quantum fields: Boson fields including Higgs fields, Dirac's theory of Fermion fields, quantum electrodynamic and quantum chromodynamics. A brief review is appended to raise the students' interests in quantum cosmology.
The readers will also find many detailed worked examples and many problems to test their own understanding.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XVII
Particles and Waves....Pages 1-47
Wave Mechanics....Pages 49-79
One-Dimensional Systems....Pages 81-102
Dirac Formalism....Pages 103-126
Representations....Pages 127-152
Quantum Dynamics....Pages 153-173
Path Integrals....Pages 175-189
Symmetries and Invariances....Pages 191-210
Angular Momentum....Pages 211-235
Addition Theorems....Pages 237-267
Rotations....Pages 269-290
Spherical Harmonics....Pages 291-314
Irreducible Tensor Operators....Pages 315-359
Perturbations....Pages 361-389
Scattering of Particles....Pages 391-415
Second Quantization....Pages 417-465
Boson Fields....Pages 467-482
Fermion Fields....Pages 483-510
Quantum X-Dynamics....Pages 511-538
Quantum Cosmology....Pages 539-572
Back Matter....Pages 573-603
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