An Introduction to Advanced Quantum Physics

Professor Hans Paar has been on the faculty of the University of California San Diego since 1986. He has taught Quantum Physics in all four quarters it is offered at the undergraduate level and has developed and taught the third and fourth quarter of this course (which corresponds to the content of the book) almost each of those 22 years. He has been vice-chair education in UCSD's Physics Department from 1992-1999 and again from 2008-present. Professor Paar is an experimental particle-astrophysicist and has spent nearly 20 years in experimental high energy physics (particle physics by another name) and nearly three years in Cosmology (the Big-Bang and the particle physics of that era). I am an author on 938 publications.

Preface. PART 1 Relativistic Quantum Physics. 1 Electromagnetic Radiation and Matter. 1.1 Hamiltonian and Vector Potential. 1.2 Second Quantization. 1.3 Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory. 1.4 Spontaneous Emission. 1.5 Blackbody Radiation. 1.6 Selection Rules. 2 Scattering. 2.1 Scattering Amplitude and Cross Section. 2.2 Born Approximation. 2.3 Photo-Electric Effect. 2.4 Photon Scattering. 3 Symmetries and Conservation Laws. 3.1 Symmetries and Conservation Laws. 3.2 Continuous Symmetry Operators. 3.3 Discrete Symmetry Operators. 3.4 Degeneracy. 4 Relativistic Quantum Physics. 4.1 Klein-Gordon Equation. 4.2 Dirac Equation. 4.3 Solutions of the Dirac Equation, Anti-Particles. 4.4 Spin, Non-Relativistic Limit and Magnetic Moment. 4.5 The Hydrogen Atom Re-Revisited. 5 Special Topics. 5.1 Introduction. 5.2 Measurements in Quantum Physics. 5.3 Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox. 5.4 Schrodinger s Cat. 5.5 The Watched Pot. 5.6 Hidden Variables and Bell s Theorem. PART 2 Introduction to Quantum Field Theory. 6 Second Quantization of Spin 1/2 and Spin 1 Fields. 6.1 Second Quantization of Spin 1/2 Fields. 6.2 Second Quantization of Spin 1 Fields. 7 Covariant Perturbation Theory and Applications. 7.1 Covariant Perturbation Theory. 7.2 W and Z Boson Decays. 7.3 Feynman Graphs. 7.4 Second Order Processes and Propagators. 8 Quantum Electrodynamics. 8.1 Electron-Positron Annihilation. 8.2 Electron-Muon Scattering. Index.