Advanced Quantum Mechanics

Rainer Dick was educated in Stuttgart and Hamburg, and worked at the University of Munich and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton before accepting a faculty position at the University of Saskatchewan. He has served at the Canadian national level as Chair of the Division of Theoretical Physics of the Canadian Association of Physicists and on several national committees. He has also served as  Secretary of the Commission for Mathematical Physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. Dick's research interests are influenced by the versatility of quantum theory and the ubiquity of quantum effects, and span a wide array of topics from materials research to astroparticle physics and brane cosmology.

• Chapter1. The Need for Quantum Mechanics.- Chapter2. Self-adjoint Operators and Eigenfunction Expansions.- Chapter3. Simple Model Systems.- Chapter4. Notions from Linear Algebra and Bra-Ket Notation.- Chapter5. Formal Developments.- Chapter6. Harmonic Oscillators and Coherent States.- Chapter7. Central Forces in Quantum Mechanics.- Chapter8. Spin and Addition of Angular Momentum Type Operators.- Chapter9. Stationary Perturbations in Quantum Mechanics.- Chapter10. Quantum Aspects of Materials I.- Chapter11. Scattering Off Potentials.- Chapter12. The Density of States.- Chapter13. Time-dependent Perturbations in Quantum Mechanics.- Chapter14. Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics.- Chapter15. Coupling to Electromagnetic Fields.- Chapter16. Principles of Lagrangian Field Theory.- Chapter17. Non-relativistic Quantum Field Theory.- Chapter18. Quantization of the Maxwell Field: Photons.- Chapter19. Epistemic and Ontic Quantum States.- Chapter20. Quantum Aspects of Materials II.- Chapter21.Dimensional Effects in Low-dimensional Systems.- Chapter22. Relativistic Quantum Fields.- Chapter23. Applications of spinor QED.