Peskin U. Quantum Mechanics in Nanoscience and Engineering 2023 torrent

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Quantum Mechanics in Nanoscience and Engineering covers both elementary and advanced quantum mechanics within a coherent and self-contained framework. Undergraduate students of physics, chemistry and engineering will find comprehensive coverage of their introductory quantum mechanics courses, and graduate students will gain an understanding of additional tools and concepts necessary to describe real world phenomena. Each topic presented is first motivated by an experimental technique, phenomenon or concept derived directly from the realm of nanoscience and technology. The machinery of quantum mechanics is described and reinforced through the perspective of nanoscale phenomena, and in this manner practical and fundamental questions are raised and answered. The main text remains fluent and accessible by leaving technical details and mathematical proofs to guided exercises. Introductory readers may overlook these exercises, while rigorous students can benefit from reading the guidance or solving the exercises in full to strengthen and consolidate their understanding of the material.
Preface: Who Can Benefit from Reading This Book?
Motivation
The State of a System
Observables and Operators
The Schrödinger Equation
Energy Quantization
Wave Function Penetration, Tunneling, and Quantum Wells
The Continuous Spectrum and Scattering States
Mechanical Vibrations and the Harmonic Oscillator Model
Two-Body Rotation and Angular Momentum
The Hydrogen-Like Atom
The Postulates of Quantum Mechanics
Approximation Methods
Many-Electron Systems
Many-Atom Systems
Quantum Dynamics
Incoherent States
Quantum Rate Processes
Thermal Rates in a Bosonic Environment
Open Quantum Systems
Open Many-Fermion Systems