Quantum Physics, Volume 1

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.

• Quantum Physics: Volume 1 - From Basics to Symmetries and PerturbationsPreface xiii1 Origin of Main Quantum Concepts 12 Wave Function and the Simplest Problems 253 Bound States 434 Dynamical Variables 675 Uncertainty Relations 856 Hilbert Space and Operators 1197 Quantum Dynamics 1538 Discrete Symmetries 1879 One-Dimensional Motion: Continuum 21710 Variational Approach and Diagonalization 24711 Discrete Spectrum and Harmonic Oscillator 26712 Coherent and Squeezed States 29313 Introducing Magnetic Field 31514 Macroscopic Quantum Coherence 33915 Semiclassical (WKB) Approximation 35716 Angular Momentum and Spherical Functions 38717 Motion in a Central Field 41718 Hydrogen Atom 44519 Stationary Perturbations 46920 Spin 1/2 48921 Finite Rotations and Tensor Operators 50922 Angular Momentum Coupling 52323 Fine and Hyperfine structure 54524 Atom in a Static Field 567References 587Further Readings 591Index 597

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