Quantum physics: the bottom-up approach ; from the simple two-level system to irreducible representations

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Main Authors: Dubbers, Dirk (Author) , Stöckmann, Hans-Jürgen (Author)
Format: Book/Monograph
Language:English
Published: Berlin Heidelberg Springer 2013
Series:Graduate texts in physics
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Author Notes:Dirk Dubbers; Hans-Jürgen Stöckmann
Table of Contents:
  • PrologueRecollections from elementary quantum physics
  • Two-state quantum systems
  • A most simple two-level system
  • Quantum theory in a nutshell
  • Experiments on spin precession
  • General solution for the two-level system
  • Other tools and concepts
  • Diabolic points, geometric phases, and quantum chaos
  • The coupling of particles
  • "Spooky action at a distance"
  • The Heisenberg equation of motion
  • Quantum physics at work
  • Spin resonance
  • Two-state systems in atomic and molecular physics
  • Two-state systems in condensed matter
  • Two-state systems in nuclear and particle physics
  • Quantum informatics
  • Multilevel sysytems and tensor operators
  • Rotations and angular momentum
  • Irreducible tensors
  • Electromagnetic multipole interactions
  • The generalized spin precession equation
  • Reorientation in static electromagnetic fields reorientation in time dependent fields
  • Relaxation and decoherence.