Please try your request again later. ISBN 978-142-007-874-9. 1994. Book: Quantum Mechanics - Symmetries, 2nd edition, 15 chapters, 496 pages Scope of the book: applications of group theory in elementary particle physic (no field theory!) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. • K. J. Barnes (2010). Previous page of related Sponsored Products, Springer; 2nd ed. Corry, S. (2017). 2nd printing 1997 edition (May 23, 1997), Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2013. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Please try again. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Every excercise has detailed solution, very important features of quantum mechanics are introduced gradually. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Intended for beginning graduate students, this text takes the reader from the familiar coordinate representation of quantum mechanics to the modern algebraic approach… Something went wrong. New York: Chapman and Hall/CRC, https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315371900. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. after that i gave up. The publisher and authors should be ashamed of themselves, Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 1997. Beyond that, they are of enormous value to the professional physicist and to all others working with quantum phenomena. When learning Quantum Mechanics (QM) you sooner or later just have to learn Group Theory. Greiner's lectures, which underlie these volumes, are internationally noted for their clarity, their completeness and for the effort that he has devoted to making physics an integral whole; his enthusiasm for his science is contagious and shines through almost every page. Thank you! Previous page of related Sponsored Products. A useful treatment of symmetries in quantum mechanics for the student who already knows some group theory, Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2011. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. I'll review more when I've read more. These volumes represent only a part of a unique and Herculean effort to make all of theoretical physics accessible to the interested student. It has more worked examples then other text books. Having used a number of Greiner's volumes in their original German in my teaching and research at Yale, I welcome these new and revised English translations and would recommend them enthusiastically to anyone searching for a coherent overview of physics. As the other reviewers state, there are tons of errata, some of them take a long time to figure out what the author means. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Series in high energy physics, cosmology, and gravitation. Taylor & Francis. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2012. There was a problem loading your book clubs. However, most of the book was at just the right Goldilocks level to move me forward. Please try again. Structured as a dialogue between a mathematician and a physicist, Symmetry and Quantum Mechanics unites the mathematical topics of … This is a rough topic. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Parts of it are too simple for me, and parts are over my head. Symmetry and Quantum Mechanics. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Unable to add item to List. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Group theory for the standard model and beyond. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. COPY. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2015, Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2003, Book: Quantum Mechanics - Symmetries, 2nd edition, 15 chapters, 496 pages, A great companion book for learning Group Therory in Quantum Mechanics, Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2007. The Quantum Measurement Problem (Progress on the Physics of Quantum Measurement) (V... To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. In this 496 page book, it is not until page 327 that the concept of group character begins to be addressed. Listen to the highly anticipated memoir, "A Promised Land". Top subscription boxes – right to your door, Quantum Mechanics: An Introduction (Theoretical physics), © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Please try again. Please try your request again later. For a good first introduction to this topic the reader should consider Tinkham's Group Theory and Quantum Mechanics. Transformations and symmetries in quantum mechanics These notes give a brief and basic introduction to some central aspects concerning transfor- mations and symmetries in quantum mechanics. So far, I've made very slow progress. eBook ISBN 9781315371900. From my limited experience as an introductory student, I'd say the book is on par with others I've seen. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, Mathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics, Lie Groups, Lie Algebras, and Representations: An Elementary Introduction, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Reader: PhD student in physics, I am a beginner in that area, this is my first book in symmetries and Lie groups. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. I have tried to explain how the results follow simply from the basic principles of quantum mechanics. Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2012. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Though interesting and useful, this book is not suitable as one's first introduction to symmetry and group theory in quantum mechanics. Share. Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2019. the book is fantastically good and flawless. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Example 1: Translations in space Wave Equations. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Beyond that, they are of enormous value to the professional physicist and to all others working with quantum phenomena. Please try again. There are 75 serious errors in the first 100 pages. 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