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This book offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the principles of quantum mechanics, with particular attention to building a solid understanding of its fundamental concepts. The mathematical framework is developed using Dirac’s bra-ket notation, providing a practical foundation for exploring a range of modern applications and advanced topics, including Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), stimulated emission and absorption of radiation, the ammonia maser, and quantum computing.
A major strength of the book is its extensive selection of fully worked examples, which are designed to reinforce theoretical concepts and demonstrate how the underlying principles can be applied to physical problems. The text also includes a detailed treatment of angular momentum algebra and its application to the study of spin-orbit coupling. This interaction is essential for understanding the shell structure of atoms and atomic nuclei.
The book further introduces the second quantization formalism used to describe many-particle systems, an important theoretical framework underlying both condensed matter physics and quantum field theory. With its broad and updated coverage of quantum mechanics, combined with numerous solved problems and rigorous mathematical development, this book is a valuable reference for graduate students, researchers, and advanced learners in physics.
- Author (s): Sham S. Malik
- Year of publication: 2026
- Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Language: English
- ISBN: 1036445003, 9781036445003, 9781036445010
- Number of pages: 471 pages
- Book format: PDF
- File size: 2 MB
