Libros UCLV { BETA }

QUANTUM MECHANICS

Nowadays, there hardly exists a branch of physics which one can seriously approach without a thorough knowledge of Quantum Mechanics. Its presentation, which is given in this work is, I hope, simple enough to be accessible to the student, and yet sufficiently complete to serve as a reference book for the working physicist. This book resulted from a course given at the Center of Nuclear Studies at Saclay since 1953. Numerous discussions with students as well as with my colleagues, have helped me considerably in clarifying its presentation. Several people to whom I had transmitted certain parts of the manuscript, have kindly given me their criticism; among them I should like to mention Messrs. Edmond Bauer and Jean Ullmo, to whom I am indebted for interesting remarks concerning the presentation of principles. I am more particularly grateful to Mr. Roger Balian for having critically examined a large portion of the manuscript, and for having suggested to me a large number of improvements. Finally, I wish to thank those of my students who were kind enough to check over the text and the calculations of the various chapters, and to help me with the correction of the proofs