Discrete Quantum Mechanics

Discrete Quantum Mechanics
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Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Total Pages : 137
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ISBN-10 : 9781681741253
ISBN-13 : 1681741253
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Book Synopsis Discrete Quantum Mechanics by : H. Thomas Williams

Download or read book Discrete Quantum Mechanics written by H. Thomas Williams and published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a quarter century of discoveries that rattled the foundations of classical mechanics and electrodynamics, the year 1926 saw the publication of two works intended to provide a theoretical structure to support new quantum explanations of the subatomic world. Heisenberg's matrix mechanics and Schrodinger’s wave mechanics provided compatible but mathematically disparate ways of unifying the discoveries of Planck, Einstein, Bohr and many others. Efforts began immediately to prove the equivalence of these two structures, culminated successfully by John von Neumann’s 1932 volume "Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics." This forms the springboard for the current effort. We begin with a presentation of a minimal set of von Neumann postulates while introducing language and notation to facilitate subsequent discussion of quantum calculations based in finite dimensional Hilbert spaces. Chapters which follow address two-state quantum systems (with spin one-half as the primary example), entanglement of multiple two-state systems, quantum angular momentum theory and quantum approaches to statistical mechanics. A concluding chapter gives an overview of issues associated with quantum mechanics in continuous infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces.


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