Brian C. Hall(B.C. 霍尔,美国)是国际知名学者,在数学界享有盛誉。本书凝聚了作者多年科研和教学成果,适用于科研工作者、高校教师和研究生。
【目录】
1 The Experimental Origins of Quantum Mechanics 1.1 Is Light a Wave or a Particle? 1.2 Is an Electron a Wave or a Particle? 1.3 SchrSdinger and Heisenberg 1.4 A Matter of Interpretation 1.5 Exercises
2 A First Approach to Classical Mechanics 2.1 Motion in R1 2.2 Motion in Rn 2.3 Systems of Particles 2.4 Angular Momentum 2.5 Poisson Brackets and Hamiltonian Mechanics 2.6 The Kepler Problem and the Runge-Lenz Vector 2.7 Exercises
3 A First Approach to Quantum Mechanics 3.1 Waves, Particles, and Probabilities 3.2 A Few Words About Operators and Their Adjoints 3.3 Position and the Position Operator 3.4 Momentum and the Momentum Operator 3.5 The Position and Momentum Operators 3.6 Axioms of Quantum Mechanics: Operators and Measurements 3.7 Time-Evolution in Quantum Theory 3.8 The Heisenberg Picture 3.9 Example: A Particle in a Box 3.10 Quantum Mechanics for a Particle in Rn 3.11 Systems of Multiple Particles 3.12 Physics Notation 3.13 Exercises
4 The Free Schrodinger Equation 4.1 Solution by Means of the Fourier Transform 4.2 Solution as a Convolution 4.3 Propagation of the Wave Packet: First Approach 4.4 Propagation of the Wave Packet: Second Approach 4.5 Spread of the Wave Packet 4.6 Exercises
5 A Particle in a Square Well 5.1 The Time-Independent SchrSdinger Equation 5.2 Domain Questions and the Matching Conditions 5.3 Finding Square-Integrable Solutions 5.4 Tunneling and the Classically Forbidden Region 5.5 Discrete and Continuous Spectrum 5.6 Exercises
6 Perspectives on the Spectral Theorem 6.1 The Difficulties with the Infinite-Dimensional Case 6.2 The Goals of Spectral Theory 6.3 A Guide to Reading 6.4 The Position Operator 6.5 Multiplication Operators 6.6 The Momentum Operator
7 The Spectral Theorem for Bounded Self-Adjoint Operators: Statements 7.1 Elementary Properties of Bounded Operators 7.2 Spectral Theorem for Bounded Self-Adjoint Operators, I 7.3 Spectral Theorem for Bounded Self-Adjoint Operators, II 7.4 Exercises
8 The Spectral Theorem for Bounded Self-Adjoint Operators: Proofs 8.1 Proof of the Spectral Theorem, First Version 8.2 Proof of the Spectral Theorem, Second Version 8.3 Exercises
9 Unbounded Self-Adjoint Operators 9.1 Introduction 9.2. Adjoint and Closure of an Unbounded Operator 9.3 Elementary Properties of Adjoints and Closed Operators 9.4 The Spectrum of an Unbounded Operator 9.5 Conditions for Self-Adjointness and Essential Self-Adjointness 9.6 A Counterexample 9.7 An Example 9.8 The Basic Operators of Quantum Mechanics 9.9 Sums of Self-Adjoint Operators 9.10 Another Counterexample 9.11 Exercises
10 The Spectral Theorem for Unbounded Self-Adjoint Operators 10.1 Statements of the Spectral Theorem 10.2 Stone's Theorem and One-Parameter Unitary Groups 10.3 The Spectral Theorem for Bounded Normal Operators 10.4 Proof of the Spectral Theorem for Unbounded Self-Adjoint Operators 10.5 Exercises
11 The Harmonic Oscillator 11.1 The Role of the Harmonic Oscillator 11.2 The Algebraic Approach 11.3 The Analytic Approach 11.4 Domain Conditions and Completeness 11.5 Exercises
12 The Uncertainty Principle 12.1 Uncertainty Principle, First Version 12.2 A Counterexample 12.3 Uncertainty Principle, Second Version 12.4 Minimum Uncertainty States 12.5 Exercises
13 Quantization Schemes for Euclidean Space 13.1 Ordering Ambiguities 13.2 Some Common Quantization Schemes 13.3 The Weyl Quantization for R2n 13.4 The "No Go" Theorem of Groenewold 13.5 Exercises
14 The Stone-yon Neumann Theorem 14.1 A Heuristic Argument 14.2 The Exponentiated Commutation Relations 14.3 The Theorem 14.4 The Segal-Bargmann Space 14.5 Exercises
15 The WKB Approximation 15.1 Introduction 15.2 The Old Quantum Theory and the Bohr-Sommerfeld Condition 15.3 Classical and Semiclassical Approximations 15.4 The WKB Approximation Away from the Turning Points 15.5 The Airy Function and the Connection Formulas 15.6 A Rigorous Error Estimate 15.7 Other Approaches 15.8 Exercises
16 Lie Groups, Lie Algebras, and Representations 16.1 Summary 16.2 Matrix Lie Groups 16.3 Lie Algebras 16.4 The Matrix Exponential 16.5 The Lie Algebra of a Matrix Lie Group 16.6 Relationships Between Lie Groups and Lie Algebras 16.7 Finite-Dimensional Representations of Lie Groups and Lie Algebras 16.8 New Representations from Old 16.9 Infinite-Dimensional Unitary Representations 16.10 Exercises
17 Angular Momentum and Spin 17.1 The Role of Angular Momentum in Quantum Mechanics 17.2 TheAngular Momentum Operators in R3 17.3 Angular Momentum from the Lie Algebra Point of View 17.4 The Irreducible Representations of so(3) 17.5 The Irreducible Representations of S0(3) 17.6 Realizing the Representations Inside L2(S2) 17.7 Realizing the Representations Inside L2(~3) 17.8 Spin 17.9 Tensor Products of Representations: "Addition of Angular Momentum" 17.10 Vectors and Vector Operators 17.11 Exercises
18 Radial Potentials and the Hydrogen Atom 18.1 Radial Potentials 18.2 The Hydrogen Atom: Preliminaries 18.3 The Bound States of the Hydrogen Atom 18.4 The Runge-Lenz Vector in the Quantum Kepler Problem 18.5 The Role of Spin 18.6 Runge-Lenz Calculations 18.7 Exercises
19 Systems and Subsystems, Multiple Particles 19.1 Introduction 19.2 Trace-Class and Hilbert Schmidt Operators 19.3 Density Matrices: The General Notion of the State of a Quantum System 19.4 Modified Axioms for Quantum Mechanics 19.5 Composite Systems and the Tensor Product 19.6 Multiple Particles: Bosons and Fermions 19.7 "Statistics" and the Pauli Exclusion Principle 19.8 Exercises
20 The Path Integral Formulation of Quantum Mechanics 20.1 Trotter Product Formula 20.2 Formal Derivation of the Feynman Path Integral 20.3 The Imaginary-Time Calculation 20.4 The Wiener Measure 20.5 The Feynman-Kac Formula 20.6 Path Integrals in Quantum Field Theory 20.7 Exercises
21 Hamiltonian Mechanics on Manifolds 21.1 Calculus on Manifolds 21.2 Mechanics on Symplectic Manifolds 21.3 Exercises
22 Geometric Quantization on Euclidean Space 22.1 Introduction 22.2 Prequantization 22.3 Problems with Prequantization 22.4 Quantization 22.5 Quantization of Observables 22.6 Exercises
23 Geometric Quantization on Manifolds 23.1 Introduction 23.2 Line Bundles and Connections 23.3 Prequantization 23.4 Polarizations 23.5 Quantization Without Half-Forms 23.6 Quantization with Half-Forms: The Real Case 23.7 Quantization with Half-Forms: The Complex Case 23.8 Pairing Maps 23.9 Exercises
A Review of Basic Material A.1 Tensor Products of Vector Spaces A.2 Measure Theory A.3 Elementary Fumctional Analysis A.4 Hilbert Spaces and Operators on Them References Index
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