Thomas Banks is a theoretical physicist at University of California, Santa Cruz and a professor at Rutgers University. He earned his PhD in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and has been a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Professor Banks is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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AUTHOR

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Two State Systems: The Ammonia Molecule

Chapter 3 Quantum Mechanics of Single Particle in One-Dimensional Space I

Chapter 4 Quantum Mechanics of a Single Particle in One-Dimensional Space II

Chapter 5 The Harmonic Oscillator

Chapter 6 Review of Linear Algebra and Dirac Notation

Chapter 7 Rotation Invariance and the Hydrogen Atom

Chapter 8 Scattering Electrons on a Nucleus

Chapter 9 Charged Particles in a Magnetic Field

Chapter 10 The Meaning of Quantum Measurement and the Emergence of a Classical Reality

Chapter 11 Sketch of Atomic, Molecular, and Condensed Matter Physics

Chapter 12 Quantum Statistical Mechanics

Chapter 13 Perturbation Theory: Time Independent

Chapter 14 Perturbation Theory: Time Dependent

Chapter 15 The Adiabatic Approximation, Aharonov-Bohm, and Berry Phases

Chapter 16 Scattering Theory

Chapter 17 The JWKB Approximation

Chapter 18 The Variational Principle

Chapter 19 The Feynman Path Integral

Chapter 20 Quantum Computation?

Chapter 21 L'Envoi: Relativistic Quantum Field Theory

Appendix A Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics

Appendix B The Dirac Delta Function

Appendix C Noether's Theorem

Appendix D Group Theory

Appendix E Laguerre Polynomials

Appendix F Summary of Dirac Notation and Linear Algebra

Appendix G Answers to Selected Problems

Bibliography

Index