AuthorThirring, Walter. author
TitleQuantum Mathematical Physics [electronic resource] : Atoms, Molecules and Large Systems / by Walter Thirring
ImprintBerlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2002
Edition Second Edition
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05008-8
Descript XVI, 592 p. online resource

SUMMARY

This book is a new edition of Volumes 3 and 4 of Walter Thirring's famous textbook on mathematical physics. The first part is devoted to quantum mechanics and especially to its applications to scattering theory, atoms and molecules. The second part deals with quantum statistical mechanics examining fundamental concepts like entropy, ergodicity and thermodynamic functions. The author builds on an axiomatic basis and uses tools from functional analysis: bounded and unbounded operators on Hilbert space, operator algebras etc. Mathematics is shown to explain the axioms in depth and to provide the right tool for testing numerical data in experiments


CONTENT

I Quantum Mechanics of Atoms and Molecules -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Mathematical Formulation of Quantum Mechanics -- 3 Quantum Dynamics -- 4 Atomic Systems -- II Quantum Mechanics of Large Systems -- 1 Systems with Many Particles -- 2 Thermostatics -- 3 Thermodynamics -- 4 Physical Systems -- Bibliography to Part I -- Bibliography to Part II


SUBJECT

  1. Physics
  2. Quantum physics
  3. Elementary particles (Physics)
  4. Quantum field theory
  5. Atoms
  6. Quantum computers
  7. Spintronics
  8. Physics
  9. Elementary Particles
  10. Quantum Field Theory
  11. Theoretical
  12. Mathematical and Computational Physics
  13. Quantum Information Technology
  14. Spintronics
  15. Quantum Physics
  16. Atomic
  17. Molecular
  18. Optical and Plasma Physics