This book presents an accessible treatment of non-relativistic and relativistic quantum mechanics. It is an ideal textbook for undergraduate and graduate physics students, and is also useful to researchers in theoretical physics, quantum mechanics, condensed matter, mathematical physics, quantum chemistry, and electronics.
This student-friendly and self-contained textbook covers the typical topics in a core undergraduate program, as well as more advanced, graduate-level topics with an elegant mathematical rigor, contemporary style, and rejuvenated approach. It balances theory and worked examples, which reinforces readers' understanding of fundamental concepts.
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The book starts with very simple problems in particle motion and ends with an in-depth discussion of advanced techniques used in Monte Carlo simulations in statistical mechanics. The level of instruction rises slowly, while discussing problems like the diffusion equation, electrostatics on the plane, quantum mechanics and random walks. All the material can be taught in two semesters, but a selection of topics can form the material of a one semester course. The book aims to provide the students with the background and the experience needed in order to advance to high performance computing projects in science and engineering. It puts emphasis on hands--on programming of numerical code but also on the production, analysis and interpretation of data. But it also tries to keep the students motivated by considering interesting applications in physics, like chaos, quantum mechanics, special relativity and the physics of phase transitions.
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Konstantinos Anagnostopoulos was educated at the University of Athens and at Syracuse University where he obtained his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1993. He has been a researcher at the Institute for Fundamental Theory at the University of Florida, Gainesville and at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen from 1993 to 1999. He held a visiting professor position at the University of Crete from 1999-2004, and in 2004 he moved to Athens where he has been a member of the faculty of the Physics Department of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) ever since. His area of expertise is computational physics with an emphasis in theoretical high energy physics, string theory and quantum gravity. He is a world expert in Monte Carlo simulations of such systems, and he has participated in projects run onto the world's largest supercomputers. At NTUA he founded three undergraduate computational physics and scientific computing courses at the senior and sophomore level, which he has been teaching since 2004. The audience of those courses are students interested in theoretical physics, but also students majoring in a wider area of applied mathematics, physics and engineering.
Myhrvold was born on August 3, 1959 in Seattle, Washington to Norwegian American parents. He was raised in Santa Monica, California,[4] where he attended Mirman School[5] and Santa Monica High School, graduating in 1974,[6] and began college at age 14.[7] Transferring from Santa Monica College, he studied mathematics (B.Sc.), and geophysics and space physics (Master's) at UCLA.[8] He was awarded a Hertz Foundation Fellowship for graduate study and studied at Princeton University, where he earned a master's degree in mathematical economics and completed a Ph.D. in applied mathematics after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "Vistas in curved space-time quantum field theory" under the supervision of Malcolm Perry.[9] For one year, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Cambridge working under Stephen Hawking.
This is the fifth, expanded edition of the comprehensive textbook published in 1990 on the theory and applications of path integrals. It is the first book to explicitly solve path integrals of a wide variety of nontrivial quantum-mechanical systems, in particular the hydrogen atom. The solutions have been made possible by two major advances. The first is a new euclidean path integral formula which increases the restricted range of applicability of Feynman's time-sliced formula to include singular attractive 1/r- and 1/r2-potentials. The second is a new nonholonomic mapping principle carrying physical laws in flat spacetime to spacetimes with curvature and torsion, which leads to time-sliced path integrals that are manifestly invariant under coordinate transformations.
His book Critical Properties of f4-Theories (World Scientific, 2001) coauthored with V. Schulte-Frohlinde, gives a thorough introduction to the field theory of critical phenomena, and develops a powerful method for resumming the divergent perturbation expansions of quantum field theory leading to the most accurate critical exponents so far.
From the reviews: "This book, basing on a quantum statistical mechanical point of view, develops the pairon theory of superconductivity. ! In total, this comprehensive monograph ! presents a very well textbook on superconductivity theories. ! The methodical advantage of the book is that ! problems of the text are used as tasks for a self-verification and self-training. ! will be very useful for students and also for their teachers specializing into Physics of Condensed Media and related directions." (I. A. Parinov, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1174, 2009) "Textbook reviews the physics of superconductivity and other superfluid phenomena which occur when matter organizes itself in a totally different way than it is expected to behave. ! This nice manual is intended for Ph.D. students working in condensed matter physics who want to have a global yet detailed and condensed view of these collective effects. The chapters ! contain the essential material to understand the technical aspects of the second quantization method and eigenvalue problems for determining the ground states of these collective effects." (Jean-Yves Fortin, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2011 k) 2ff7e9595c
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