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1 online resource (460 pages) |
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Advanced Books Classics |
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Advanced Books Classics
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Editorâ#x80;#x99;s Foreword; Translatorâ#x80;#x99;s Note; Preface; CHAPTER 1: DIMENSIONAL AND ""MODEL"" APPROXIMATIONS; 1 Order-of-Magnitude Estimation of Mathematical Expressions; Estimation of Integrals; The Method of Steepest Descents; Properties of Integrals of Oscillating Functions. Estimates of the Higher Terms in Fourier Series Expansions; Methods of Approximate Solution of Differential Equations; 2 Atomic Physics; Estimate of the Velocities and Orbit Sizes of the Inner Atomic Electrons; Stationary States |
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Distribution of Electric Charge in the AtomThe Rutherford Formula; Inapplicability of Classical Mechanics for Large Impact Parameters; Estimate of the Scattering Cross Section for Potentials which Fall Off Faster than the Coulomb Potential; Resonance Effects in Scattering; Interaction Between Atoms; Ionization of Atoms; Multiple Scattering; 3 Interaction with Radiation; Zero-point Vibrations of the Electromagnetic Field; The Photoeffect; Lifetimes of Excited Atomic States; Bremsstrahlung; Pair Creation |
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Creation of Soft Photons in the Scattering of Charged Particles (The ""Infrared Catastrophe"")The Lamb Shift; Asymptotic Character of Series in Quantum Electrodynamics; CHAPTER 2: VARIOUS TYPES OF PERTURBATION THEORY; 1 Perturbation Theory in the Continuous Spectrum; Scattering of Charged Particles by the Atomic Nucleus; 2 Perturbation of the Boundary Conditions; The Energy Levels of a Deformed Nucleus; 3 Sudden Perturbations; Ionization of Atoms in β -decay; Ionization of an Atom in Nuclear Reactions; Transfer of Energy when a Photon is Emitted by a Nucleus in a Molecule (MÜssbauer Effect) |
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4 Adiabatic PerturbationsIonization of an Atom by the Passage of a Slow Heavy Particle; Capture of an Atomic Electron by a Proton (Charge Exchange); 5 Fast and Slow Subsystems; Vibrational Energy Levels of a Molecule; Excitation of Nuclear Dipole Levels by a Fast Particle; Scattering of a Proton by a Hydrogen Atom (Charge Exchange); 6 Perturbation Theory for Adjacent Levels; A Particle in a Periodic Potential; The Stark Effect in the Case of Adjacent Levels; The Change of the Lifetime of the 2s1/2 State of the Hydrogen Atom under an Applied Electric Field |
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CHAPTER 3: THE QUASICLASSICAL APPROXIMATION1 The One-Dimensional Case; Asymptotic Series; Matching of Quasiclassical Functions; The Quantization Condition; Accuracy of the Quasiclassical Approximation; Normalization of Quasiclassical Functions; The Correspondence Principle; Mean Kinetic Energy; Connection between the Quasiclassical Matrix Elements and the Fourier Components of Classical Motion; Criterion for the Applicability of Perturbation Theory to the Calculation of Not Too Small Quantities; Calculation of Matrix Elements in the Case of Fast Oscillating Functions; Barrier Penetration |
| Summary |
This unique book, written by a leading Soviet theorist, is not a textbook of quantum mechanics but rather a compendium of the "tricks of the trade"-the methods that all practicing theoretical physicists use but few have set down in writing |
| Notes |
Reflection Above a Barrier |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Quantum theory.
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Quantum theory
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429966491 |
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0429966490 |
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