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Table Of Contents

Preface xv
I Essentials 1
1 Key Features of Quantum Mechanics 3
2 Light, Particles, and Waves 31
3 Schrodinger Equation 67
4 Wave Packets, Uncertainty, and Momentum Space 93
5 Expectation Values and Hermitian Operators 111
6 Stationary States I: Special Potentials 133
7 Stationary States II: General Features 171
8 Stationary States III: Scattering 211
9 Harmonic Oscillator 233
10 Angular Momentum and Central Potentials 255
11 Hydrogen Atom 281
12 The Simplest Quantum System: Spin One-Half 307
II Theory 335
13 Vector Spaces and Operators 337
14 Inner Products, Adjoints, and Bra-kets 381
15 Uncertainty Principle and Compatible Operators 427
16 Pictures of Quantum Mechanics 459
17 Dynamics of Quantum Systems 481
18 Multiparticle States and Tensor Products 519
19  Angular Momentum and Central Potentials: Part II 555
20 Addition of Angular Momentum 599
21 Identical Particles 639
III Applications 685
22 Density Matrix and Decoherence 687
23 Quantum Computation 737
24 Charged Particles in Electromagnetic Fields 761
25 Time-Independent Perturbation Theory 793
26 WKB and Semiclassical Approximation 849
27 Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory 891
28 Adiabatic Approximation 953
29 Scattering in One Dimension 999
30 Scattering in Three Dimensions 1025
References 1057
Index 1065

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