Basdevant / Dalibard The Quantum Mechanics Solver

How to Apply Quantum Theory to Modern Physics
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-3-662-04277-9
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 243 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Advanced Texts in Physics

Quantum mechanics is an endless source of new questions and fascinating observations. Examples can be found in fundamental physics and in applied physics, in mathematical questions as well as in the currently popular debates on the interpretation of quantum mechanics and its philosophical implica tions. Teaching quantum mechanics relies mostly on theoretical courses, which are illustrated by simple exercises often of a mathematical character. Reduc ing quantum physics to this type of problem is somewhat frustrating since very few, if any, experimental quantities are available to compare the results with. For a long time, however, from the 1950s to the 1970s, the only alterna tive to these basic exercises seemed to be restricted to questions originating from atomic and nuclear physics, which were transformed into exactly soluble problems and related to known higher transcendental functions. In the past ten or twenty years, things have changed radically. The devel opment of high technologies is a good example. The one-dimensional square well potential used to be a rather academic exercise for beginners. The emer gence of quantum dots and quantum wells in semiconductor technologies has changed things radically. Optronics and the associated developments in infra red semiconductor and laser technologies have considerably elevated the social rank of the square-well model. As a consequence, more and more emphasis is given to the physical aspects of the phenomena rather than to analytical or computational considerations.

Zielgruppe

Graduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Basdevant, Jean-Louis

Dalibard, Jean

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Colored Centers in Ionic Crystals.- 2. Unstable Diatomic Molecule.- 3. Neutrino Oscillations.- 4. Colored Molecular Ions.- 5. Schrödinger’s Cat.- 6. Direct Observation of Field Quantization.- 7. Decay of a Tritium Atom.- 8. The Hydrogen Atom in Crossed Fields.- 9. Exact Results for the Three-Body Problem.- 10. Analysis of a Stern—Gerlach Experiment.- 11. Measuring the Electron Magnetic Moment Anomaly.- 12. Neutron Interferometry.- 13. The Penning Trap.- 14. Quantum Cryptography.- 15. Hidden Variables and Bell’s Inequalities.- 16. Hyperfine Structure in Electron Spin Resonance.- 17. The Spectrum of Positronium.- 18. Magnetic Excitons.- 19. Probing Matter with Positive Muons.- 20. Spectroscopic Measurement on a Neutron Beam.- 21. The Quantum Eraser.- 22. Molecular Lasers.- 23. Energy Loss by Ions in Matter.- 24. Properties of a Bose—Einstein Condensate.- 25. Quantum Reflection of Atoms from a Surface.- 26. Laser Cooling and Trapping.- 27. Quantum Motion in a Periodic Potential.- Author Index.