Mastering Quantum Mechanics: Essentials, Theory, and Applications (Hardcover)

A complete overview of quantum mechanics, covering essential concepts and results, theoretical foundations, and applications.

This undergraduate textbook offers a comprehensive overview of quantum mechanics, beginning with essential concepts and results, proceeding through the theoretical foundations that provide the field's conceptual framework, and concluding with the tools and applications students will need for advanced studies and for research. Drawn from lectures created for MIT undergraduates and for the popular MITx online course, "Mastering Quantum Mechanics," the text presents the material in a modern and approachable manner while still including the traditional topics necessary for a well-rounded understanding of the subject. As the book progresses, the treatment gradually increases in difficulty, matching students' increasingly sophisticated understanding of the material.

- Part 1 covers states and probability amplitudes, the Schrödinger equation, energy eigenstates of particles in potentials, the hydrogen atom, and spin one-half particles
- Part 2 covers mathematical tools, the pictures of quantum mechanics and the axioms of quantum mechanics, entanglement and tensor products, angular momentum, and identical particles.
- Part 3 introduces tools and techniques that help students master the theoretical concepts with a focus on approximation methods.
- 236 exercises and 286 end-of-chapter problems
- 248 figures

一本完整的量子力學概述，涵蓋基本概念和結果、理論基礎和應用。

這本本科教材提供了量子力學的全面概述，從基本概念和結果開始，通過提供該領域概念框架的理論基礎，最終介紹學生在進階研究和研究中所需的工具和應用。該教材是根據麻省理工學院本科生和熱門的MITx在線課程“精通量子力學”創建的講義，以現代且易於理解的方式呈現材料，同時包含了傳統主題，以便全面理解該主題。隨著書籍的進展，內容的難度逐漸增加，以配合學生對材料的日益成熟的理解。

- 第一部分涵蓋狀態和概率幅、薛定諾方程、位於電位中的粒子的能量本徵狀態、氫原子和自旋一半粒子。
- 第二部分涵蓋數學工具、量子力學的圖像和量子力學的公理、纏結和張量積、角動量和相同粒子。
- 第三部分介紹幫助學生掌握理論概念的工具和技巧，重點放在近似方法上。
- 236個練習和286個章末問題
- 248個圖片

Barton Zwiebach is Professor of Physics at MIT. His research is in theoretical particle physics and string theory, and he is the author of the undergraduate textbook A First Course in String Theory. The creator and lead instructor for the popular MITx "Mastering Quantum Mechanics" course, he taught undergraduate quantum mechanics at MIT from 2010 to 2020.

Barton Zwiebach是麻省理工學院的物理學教授。他的研究領域是理論粒子物理學和弦理論，並且他是本科教材《弦理論初級課程》的作者。他是受歡迎的MITx「精通量子力學」課程的創建者和主講教師，並在2010年至2020年期間在麻省理工學院教授本科量子力學。