"Version: 20190401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Reasons from astrophysics and atomic physics for our world to be three-dimensional -- 3. More on the stability of atoms and planetary systems in our three-dimensional world : why do we live longer than a tiny fraction of a second? -- 4. Crossing of the micro- and macro-worlds : similarities between p…
"Version: 20181101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Nuclear scattering and density-density correlation function -- 1.2. Linear response and retarded correlation functions -- 1.3. Thermodynamic properties and Green's functionpart I. Digest of many-body theory. 2. Elements of quantum mechanics -- 2.1. Thermodynamics of quantum systems -- 2.2. Time dep…
"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Fundamentals of the diatomic molecule. 1. Primer on diatomic spectroscopy -- 1.1. Overview -- 1.2. Reversed angular momentum -- 1.3. Exact diatomic eigenfunction -- 1.4. Computation of diatomic spectra2. Line strength computations -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Idealized computation of spectra3. Framework of the Wig…
"Version: 20190101"--Title page verso."This is a revised and enlarged edition of the monograph previously published by Springer in 1996 under the slightly shorter title Supersymmetric methods in quantum and statistical physics"--Page xi.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Supersymmetric quantum mechanics -- 2.1. Definition of SUSY quantum mechanics -- 2.2. Properties of N …
"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Review of basics -- 1.1. About quantum mechanics -- 1.2. Hilbert space -- 1.3. Elementary quantum mechanics -- 1.4. Dirac and von Neumann -- 1.5. Rigged Hilbert space -- 1.6. Observables and Hermitean operators -- 1.7. The uncertainty relation -- 1.8. Commuting observables -- 1.9. Unitary operators -- 1.10. The Gaussian …
"Version: 20200401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Representation of rotations, angular momentum and spin -- 1.1. Rotations in (3, R) -- 1.2. Matrix representations of spin and angular momentum operators -- 1.3. The Pauli spin matrices -- 1.4. Matrix representations of rotations in ket space -- 1.5. Tensor representations for SU(2) -- 1.6. Tensor representations for SO…
"Version: 20191201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. A theory of polarized photons -- 1.1. Polarized lightwaves -- 1.2. Polarized photons -- 1.3. Uncertainty in experiments -- 1.4. Dirac bracket notation -- 1.5. Transformation properties of polarizing filter measurements -- 1.6. Multiples of kets -- 1.7. Exercises2. A theory of the Stern-Gerlach experiment for spin-1-2 p…
"Version: 20220901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. What is this book about? -- 1.2. The evolution of the Universe -- 1.3. The evolution of human thought -- 1.4. The birth of modern physics -- 1.5. Life sciences and their contribution to understanding the world2. Materials science and life sciences -- 2.1. The impact of the production and use of mat…
"Version: 20190501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Experimental motivations -- 1.2. Wave mechanics postulates -- 1.3. Postulates' discussion -- 1.4. Continuity equation -- 1.5. Eigenstates and eigenvalues -- 1.6. Time evolution -- 1.7. Spatial dependence -- 1.8. Dimensionality reduction -- 1.9. Problems2. 1D wave mechanics -- 2.1. Basic relations -…
"Version: 20190501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. 1D wave mechanics -- 3. Higher dimensionality effects -- 4. Bra-ket formalism -- 5. Some exactly solvable problems -- 6. Perturbative approaches -- 7. Open quantum systems -- 8. Multiparticle systems -- 9. Elements of relativistic quantum mechanics -- Appendices. A. Selected mathematical formulas -- …