This book covers the entire span of quantum mechanics whose
developments have taken place during the early part of the twentieth
century up till the present day. We start with the Rutherford-Bohr
model of the atom followed by Schrodinger's wave mechanics with its
application to the solution of calculating the energy spectrum of a
particle in a box, the harmonic oscillator and finally the hydrogen
atom. Heisenberg's matrix mechanics and its duality with Schrodinger's
wave mechanics, quantum mechanics in the interaction picture. Dirac's
relativistic theory of the electron exhibiting the spin of the
electron as a relativistic effect when it interacts with an external
electromagnetic field. Feynman's path integral approach to
non-relativistic quantum mechanics with is a marvellous intuitive
interpretation as a sum over paths and how classical mechanics is
obtained from its limit as Planck' constant tends to zero, methods for
computing the spectra of the Dirac Hamiltonian in a radial potential,
quantum field theory as developed by Feynman, Schwinger, Tomonaga and
Dyson for describing the interaction between electrons, positrons, and
photons via propagators using both the operator theoretic expansions
and Feynman's path integral. We also introduce time independent and
time dependent perturbation theory in quantum mechanics with
applications to quantum gate design for quantum computers forming a
major part of the research conducted by the author's research group,
Quantum noise introduced into the Schrodinger and Dirac's equation
based on the Hudson-Parthasarathy quantum stochastic calculus in Boson
Fock space, scattering theory and wave operators with applications to
quantum gate design, some aspects of second quantization like the
interpretation of Boson Fock space in terms of harmonic oscillator
algebras and the BCS theory of superconductivity,
Wigner-Mackey-Frobenius theory of induced representations of a group
with applications to Wigner's theory of particle classification,
Dirac's equation in a gravitational field and Yang-Mills non-Abelian
gauge theories with application to the construction of unified quantum
field theories and finally, the more recent theory of super-symmetry
which is a Boson-Fermion unification theory. We have discussed the
statistics of Boson's, Fermions and Maxwell-Boltzmann based on entropy
maximization. The book is written in problem-solution format and it
would be of use to physicists and engineers interested respectively in
developing unified field theories and in the design of quantum gates.
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For Scientists and Engineers
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781000465389
Publisert
2021
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
CRC Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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