دانلود کتاب Introduction to Quantum Mechanics: A Time-Dependent Perspective

This best-selling classic provides a graduate-level, non-historical, modern introduction of quantum mechanical concepts. The author, J. J. Sakurai, was a renowned theorist in particle theory. This revision by Jim Napolitano retains the original material and adds topics that extend the text’s usefulness into the 21st century. The introduction of new material, and modification of existing material, appears in a way that better prepares the student for the next course in quantum field theory. You will still find such classic developments as neutron interferometer experiments, Feynman path integrals, correlation measurements, and Bell’s inequality. The style and treatment of topics is now more consistent across chapters.   The Second Edition has been updated for currency and consistency across all topics and has been checked for the right amount of mathematical rigor PART I. Pictures and concepts. Ch. 1. The time-dependent Schrodinger equation — Ch. 2. The free-particle wavepacket — Ch. 3. The Gaussian wavepacket — Ch. 4. Correspondence between classical and quantum dynamics — Ch. 5. The Wigner representation and the density operator — Ch. 6. Correlation functions and spectra — Ch. 7. One-dimensional barrier scattering. PART II. Formal theory and methods of approximation. Ch. 8. Linear algebra and quantum mechanics — Ch. 9. Approximate solutions of the time-dependent Schrodinger equation — Ch. 10. Path integration, the van Vleck propagator and semiclassical mechanics — Ch. 11. Numerical methods for solving the time-dependent Schrodinger equation. PART III. Applications. Ch. 12. Introduction to molecular dynamics — Ch. 13. Femtosecond pulse pair excitation — Ch. 14. One- and two-photon electronic spectroscopy — Ch. 15. Strong field excitation — Ch. 16. Design of femtosecond pulse sequences to control chemical reactions — Ch. 17. Wavepacket approach to photodissociation — Ch. 18. Wavepacket correlation function formulation of reactive scattering — Appendix A. The Dirac Delta function and the Cauchy principal value — Appendix B. Composite systems — Appendix C. Normalization and orthogonality of scattering eigenstates — Appendix D. Units and conversions