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Introductory applied quantum and statistical mechanics
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Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, 2004
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9780471202769

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Summary

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* An applied focus for electrical engineers and materials scientists.
* Theoretical results supported with real-world systems and applications.
* Includes worked examples and self-study questions.
* Solutions manual available.


Author Notes

Peter L. Hagelstein is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at M.I.T. He is a principal investigator in the Optics and Quantum Electronics Group of the Research Laboratory of Electronics.

Stephen D. Senturia joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at M.I.T. immediately after completing his education (MIT, Ph.D. in Physics, 1966), initially as Research Scientist, then as Assistant Professor in 1967, with subsequent promotions up the ranks. From 1992 to 2002, he held the Barton L. Weller Chair in Electrical Engineering. He has been involved in microsensor and MEMS research since the early 1970's. For a number of years, his research focused on developing material-property measurement methods and CAD tools for MEMS. The work on MEMCAD led to the spin-out from his group of the two companies that lead this commercial field: IntelliSense and Coventor.He serves as Senior Editor of the ASME/IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems. After officially retiring from MIT in June, 2002, Dr. Senturia now has part-time duties at MIT and serves as Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Polychromix, Inc., Woburn, MA, a company he founded to adapt the Polychromator technology for commercial use. Honor and professional societies include the IEEE (Fellow), Phi Beta Kappa, and Sigma Xi.

Terry P. Orlando is a Professor at the Research Laboratory of Electronics at M.I.T. His research focuses on superconducting circuits for quantum computation and nonlinear dynamics.


Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I Foundations
1 Particles and Waves
2 Probability Amplitudes
3 The Origins of Quantum Mechanics
4 The Schr?dinger Equation and Wave Packet Solutions
5 Operators, Expectation Values, and Ehrenfest's Theorem
Part II The Time-Independent Schrodinger Equation
6 Eigenfunctions and Eigenvalues
7 Piecewise Constant Potentials: I
8 Piecewise Constant Potentials: II
Part III The Simple Harmonic Oscillator
9 The Simple Harmonic Oscillator I
10 The Simple Harmonic Oscillator II: Operators
11 The Simple Harmonic Oscillator III: Wave Packet Solutions
12 The Quantum LC Circuit
Part IV Useful Approximations
13 Overview of Approximate Methods for Eigenfunctions
14 The WKB Approximation
15 The Variational Method
16 Finite Basis Approximation
Part V The Two-Level System
17 The Two-level System with Static Coupling
18 Th e Two-level System with Dynamical Coupling
19 Coupld Two-level System and Simple Harmonic Oscillator
Part VI Quantum Systems with Many Degrees of Freedom
20 Problems in More than One Dimension
21 Electromagnetic Field Quantization I: Resonator Fields
22 Electromagnetic Field Quantization II: Free-space Fields
23 The Density of States
24 The Golden Rules: The Calculation of Transition Raes
Part VII Statistical Mechanics
25 Basic Concepts of Statistical Mechanics
26 Microscopic Quantum Systems in Equilibrium with a Reservoir
27 Statistical Models Applied to Metals and Semiconductors
Part VIII Hydrogen Atom, Helium Atom, and Molecular Hydrogen
28 The Hydrogen Atom I: The Classical Problems
29 The Hydrogen Atom II: The Quantum Problem
30 The Hydrogen Atom III: Applications
31 Two-Electron Atoms and Ions
32 Molecular Hydrogen I: H 2+ and H 2 Electronic Orbitals
33 Molecular Hydrogen II: Vibrational and Rotational States
Part IX Appendices
Appendix A Gaussian Integrals
Appendix B The Fourier Transform of a Plane Wave
Appendix C The Probability Flux
Appendix D The Cascaded Matrix Method
Appendix E The Creation Operator Raises the Index
Appendix F Canonical Quantization
Appendix G Wave Packet Incident on a "Gentle" Potential Step
Appendix H The WKB Representation for Allowed Regions
Appendix I The WKB Representation for Forbidden Regions
Appendix J Matrix Elements for the Quartic Well
Appendix K Normalization, and the Unity Operator
Appendix L The Density Operator and Density Matrix
Appendix M The Two-level System Hamiltonian
Appendix N Thinking about Dirac Notation
Appendix O Coordinate Rotation and the Two-dimensional SHO
Appendix P Conservation Law for the Electromagnetic Energy Density
Appendix Q The Grand Partition Function
Appendix R Analytic Results for Metals Properties
Appendix S Saha Equilibrium for a Hydrogen Plasma
Appendix T Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Appendix U The Atomic Force Microscope
Appendix V The Heisenberg Picture
References
Index
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