Book contents
- Quantum Mechanics in Nanoscience and Engineering
- Additional material
- Quantum Mechanics in Nanoscience and Engineering
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface: Who Can Benefit from Reading This Book?
- 1 Motivation
- 2 The State of a System
- 3 Observables and Operators
- 4 The Schrödinger Equation
- 5 Energy Quantization
- 6 Wave Function Penetration, Tunneling, and Quantum Wells
- 7 The Continuous Spectrum and Scattering States
- 8 Mechanical Vibrations and the Harmonic Oscillator Model
- 9 Two-Body Rotation and Angular Momentum
- 10 The Hydrogen-Like Atom
- 11 The Postulates of Quantum Mechanics
- 12 Approximation Methods
- 13 Many-Electron Systems
- 14 Many-Atom Systems
- 15 Quantum Dynamics
- 16 Incoherent States
- 17 Quantum Rate Processes
- 18 Thermal Rates in a Bosonic Environment
- 19 Open Quantum Systems
- 20 Open Many-Fermion Systems
- Index
Copyright page
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 May 2023
Book contents
- Quantum Mechanics in Nanoscience and Engineering
- Additional material
- Quantum Mechanics in Nanoscience and Engineering
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface: Who Can Benefit from Reading This Book?
- 1 Motivation
- 2 The State of a System
- 3 Observables and Operators
- 4 The Schrödinger Equation
- 5 Energy Quantization
- 6 Wave Function Penetration, Tunneling, and Quantum Wells
- 7 The Continuous Spectrum and Scattering States
- 8 Mechanical Vibrations and the Harmonic Oscillator Model
- 9 Two-Body Rotation and Angular Momentum
- 10 The Hydrogen-Like Atom
- 11 The Postulates of Quantum Mechanics
- 12 Approximation Methods
- 13 Many-Electron Systems
- 14 Many-Atom Systems
- 15 Quantum Dynamics
- 16 Incoherent States
- 17 Quantum Rate Processes
- 18 Thermal Rates in a Bosonic Environment
- 19 Open Quantum Systems
- 20 Open Many-Fermion Systems
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023