I. Books on Various Topics in Modern Physics
J. Bernstein, P.M. Fishbane, and S. Gasiorowicz, Modern Physics,
Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J., (2000).
J. Brehm and W.J. Mullin, Introduction to the Structure of Matter,
John Wiley, New York, 1989.
R. Eisberg and R. Resnick, Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules,
Solids. Nuclei and Particle s (2nd edition), John Wiley, New York,
1985.
II. Textbooks and Monographs
G. Baym, Lectures on Quantum Mechanics, W. A. Benjamin, New York,
1969.
This is a very appealing book, with just the right mixture of
formalism, intuitive arguments, and applications. it should be
considered an advanced book, accessible to the student who has
covered the material in this book.
H. A. Bethe and R. W. Jackiw, Intermediate Quantum Mechanics (2nd
edition), W. A. Benjamin, New York, 1968
This book contains detailed discussions of calculational methods
applicable to the theory of atomic structure, multiplet
splittings, the photoelectric effect, and atomic collisions.
Much of the material is not to be found in any other textbook.
The book is thus an advanced text, as well as an exhaustive
reference book.
H. A. Bethe and E. E. Salpeter, Quamtum Mechanics of One- and
Two-Electron atoms, Springer-Verlag, Berlin/New York, 1957.
This reprint of the authors' article in the Handbuch der Physik
is an elabrate, detailed, definitive treatment of the problem at
hand. It is a book about atoms and not about quantum mechanics,
and the level is high. It is an excellent refrence book.
D. Bohm, Quantum Theory, Dover, New York, 1989.
This book is discursively written, on a level comparable to the
present book. The author pays much attention to the principles
of quantum theory and gives and excellent discussion of the
quantum theory of the measurement process. There are few
applications and not many problems.
S. Borowitz, Fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics, W. A. Benjamin, New
York, 1967.
This is a well-written book, about half of which is devoted to
the theory of waves and to classical mechanics. The level is
comparable to that of the present book.
C. Cohen-Tannoudji, B. Diu, and F. Laloe, Quantum Mechanics, John
Wiley, New York, 1977.
This is and encyclopedic book of more than a thousand pages. The
student will find detailed coverage of many aspects of atomic
physics. The mathematical level is quite a bit above that of
Quantum Physics.
R. H. Dicke and J. P. Wittke, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics,
Addison-Wesley, Mass., 1960.
I enjoyed this book very much. It is on a level comparable to
the present book, and discusses a few topics, notably quantum
statistics, that are not treated here. The problems are
excellent.
P. A. M. Dirac, The Principles of Quantum Mechanics (4th edition),
Oxford University Press (Clarendon), Oxford, England, 1958.
This is a superb book by one of the major creators of quantum
mechanics. The student who has studied the material in this book
will have no trouble with Dirac; if at all serious about
mastering quantum mechanics, he or she should sooner or later go
through Dirac's book.
R. P. Feynman and A. R. Hibbs, Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals,
McGraw-Hill, New York, 1965.
In 1948, R. P. Feynman proposed a different formulation of
quantum mechanics. In this book the equivalence of this
formulation to the standard theory is demonstrated, and the
"path integral" expression for the general amplitude is
exploited in a number of calculations. The selection of material
is very interesting, and the point of view is different from the
one developed by the author. Thus this somewhat more advanced
boo k presents an excellent complement to this book.
R. P. Feynman, R. B. Leighton, and M. Sands, The Feynman Lectures on
Physics, Vol. 3, Quantum Mechanics, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass.,
1965.
In this introduction to quantum mechanics, Feynman abandons the
path integral and approaches the subject from the point of view
of state vectors. A large number of fascinating examples are
discussed with the minimum of formal apparatus. A superb
complementary book, whose only shortcoming is the absence of
problems.
K. Gottfried, Quantum Mechanics, Vol. 1, Fundamentals, W. A.
Benjamin, New York, 1966.
This is a very advanced book, distinguished by the care with
which the various topics are discussed. The treatment of the
measurement of process and of invariance principles is
excellent. The student who has mastered the material in this book
should be able to read Gottfried's book, provided he or she has
acquired the necessary mathematical equipment.
D. Griffiths, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, Prentice hall
Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1995.
This well-written, attractive book is roughly on the level of
Dicke and Wittke or Saxon. It contains a nice selection of
topics, including a discussion of the geometric phase.
G. Greenstein and A. G. Zajonc, The quantum Challenge, Jones and
Bartlett, Sudbury, Mass., 1997.
This is a fine book that deals with the foundations of quantum
mechanics from the point of view of basic experiments. It is
a real pleasure to read and makes few mathematical demands on
the reader.
W. Heisenberg, The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory, Dover,
New York, 1930.
This reprint of some 1930 lectures given by Heisenberg on the
physical significance on the quantum theory still makes good
reading. The discussion of the uncertainty relations is
particularly useful.
T. E. Jordan, Quantum Mechanics in simple Matrix Form, John Wiley,
New York, 1986.
This is a very interesting book in that it deals with quantum
mechanics in the form of originally created by W. Heisenberg, M.
Born, and P. Jordan. Calculations became much simple with the
(equivalent) wave mechanics approach of Schrodinger, but as this
brief book shows, one can do a lot with simple matrices. This is
the place where one can find the matrix solution to the hydrogen
atom, and there is a nice discussion of Bell's inequalities.
H. A. Kramers, Quatum Mechanics, Interscience, New York, 1957.
This book by one of the founders of the subject is at its best
in the discussion of spin and the introduction to relativistic
quantum theory, both rather advanced subjects. The student who
is comfortable with quantum mechanics will find browsing through
this book enjoyable and rewarding.
L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz, Quantum Mechanics (Nonrelativistic
Theory) (2nd edition), Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1965.
The book by Landau and Lifshitz is one of a series of superb
books covering all of theoretical physics. it is hard to think
of this a s textbook for any but the most sophisticated
students. Any student, however, once he reaches the advanced
level, will find much that is useful in this book. There is an
assumed mathematical facility on the part of the student.
R. L. Liboff, Introductory Quantum Mechanics, Addison Wesley
Longman, Reading, Mass., 1998.
This is a very attractive book, written on roughly the same
mathematical level as Quantum Physics. It is an excellent
alternative reference, with a more detailed treatment of solid
state physics applications.
H. J. Lipkin, Quantum Mechanics--New Approaches to Selected Topics,
North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1973.
Lipkin's book deals with a number of advanced topics in the
application of quantum mechanics, in a simple way. The physics
is always at the forefront of the discussion, and a student who
has a good command of Quantum Physics will get much benefit and
pleasure out of this book.
A. Messiah, Quantum Mechanics (in 2 volumes), John Wiley, New York,
1968.
This book gives a complete coverage of quantum theory from the
treatment of one-dimensional potentials through the quantization
of the electromagnetic field and the relativistic wave equation
of Dirac. it is an advanced book , and it assumes a mathematical
sophistication that few first-year graduate students possess. it
is an extremely worthwhile book.
E. Merzbacher, Quantum mechanics (3rd edition), John Wiley, new
York, 1998.
Together with the books of Schiff and Sakurai, this is the
standard first-year graduate text in quantum mechanics. Recent
editions have enlarged it, but the standard of economy and
taste have been maintained.
R. Omenes, Understanding Quantum Mechanics, Princeton University
Press, Princeton, N.J., 1999.
This excellent book covers a great deal of the work done in
recent years on extending or modifying the generally accepted
approach to the meaning of quantum mechanics.
H. C. Ohanian, Principles of Quantum Mechanics, Prentice Hall,
Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1990.
The basics of quantum mechanics are covered at more or less the
same level as the present book. there is a nice discussion of
Bell's theorems and a brief overview of some of "the concerns
about the interpretation of quantum mechanics."
D. Park, Introduction to the Quantum Theory, (3rd edition) McGraw
Hill, New York, 1992.
This excellent book is written at a level comparable to Quantum
Physics and complements it nicely. A variety of topics not
covered in this book are treated, such as the formation of cloud
chamber tracks, Bell's inequalities, and more details on the
motion of electrons in a periodic lattice.
W. Pauli, Die Allgemeinen Prinzipien der Wellenmechanik, Handbuch
der Physik, Vol. 5/1, Springer-Verlag, Berlin/New York, 1958.
The advanced student who reads German will find in this reprint
of a 1930 article by Pauli a concise definitive discussion of
quantum mechanics. There are no applications, but all of the
important matters are there.
P. J. E. Peebles, Quantum Mechanics, Princeton University Press,
Princeton, N.J. 1992.
This is a nicely written textbook at the undergraduate level. it
differs from other books at this level (except that by Bohm) by
a detailed discussion of what is really meant by the measurement
process in quantum mechanics.
A. B. Pippard, The Physics of Vibration, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge, England 1978.
This book covers all kinds of oscillators, classically and
quantum mechanically. It is not a textbook in the usual sense.
It is a delight to read.
J. L. Powell and b. Crasemann, Quantum Mechanics, Addison-Wesley,
Reading, Mass., 1962.
The strength of this book is in the painstaking working out of
all of the mathematical details of wave mechanics and matrix
mechanics. Probably all of the mathematical aspects of these
subjects that have been bypassed in this book can be found here.
there is a good discussion of the WKB approximation and of the
general properties of second-order differential equations. There
are relatively few applications, and there are more exercises
that problems.
R. W. Robinett, Quantum Mechanics, Orford University Press, England
1997.
This book is more or less on the same level as Quantum Physics
and it is useful as an alternative reference. There is a nice
treatment of two-dimensional quantum mechanics.
J. Schwinger, Quantum Mechanics, Springer Verlag, Berlin and
Heidelberg, 2001.
The lectures of J. Schwinger on quantum mechanics were edited
posthumously by B-G. Englert. They provide an original approach
to the formalism, and they show clearly Schwinger's wizardry in
mathematical physics.
J. J. Sakurai, Modern Quantum Mechanics (S. F. Tuan, Editor),
Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1994.
This excellent book by the late J. J. Sakurai is written at a
somewhat more advanced level than Quantum Physics, like the
books by Merzbacher and Schiff. This first-year graduate
textbook really does have a modern flavor with a selection of
topics that leads quite naturally into the areas of advanced
quantum mechanics of interest to particle physicist. The book
has an exclelent collection of problems.
D. S. Saxon, Elementary Quantum Mechanics, Holden-Day, San
Francisco, 1968.
This book is on the same level as the present one, and it is a
useful reference, since the selection of topics is just a little
different, as it is the emphasis and the choice of
applications. The book contains an excellent set of problems.
L. I. Schiff, Quantum Mechanics (3rd edition), McGraw-Hill, New
York, 1968.
This is one of the standard first year graduate textbooks. It is
perhaps a little too compact, and thus most suitable for the
well-prepared student. the level of mathematical sophistication
assumed is above that of the reader of the present book.
F. Schwabl, Quantum Mechanics, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1992.
This is a more advanced book with an interesting selection of
topics.
R. Shankar, Principles of Quantum Mechanics, Plenum, New York, 1980.
This is a more sophisticated and mathematically advanced book
than the present book. it contains alternative treatement of
some of the topics discussed in this book, and is a good
refereence.
M. P. Silverman, And Yet it Moves: Strange Systems and Subtle
Questions in Physics, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1993.
This book deals in a qualitative way with a number of topics
that involve the basic principles of quantum physics. It is fun
to read and quite accessible to the student who has covered a
good part of Quantum Mechanics.
J. Bernstein, P.M. Fishbane, and S. Gasiorowicz, Modern Physics,
Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J., (2000).
J. Brehm and W.J. Mullin, Introduction to the Structure of Matter,
John Wiley, New York, 1989.
R. Eisberg and R. Resnick, Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules,
Solids. Nuclei and Particle s (2nd edition), John Wiley, New York,
1985.
II. Textbooks and Monographs
G. Baym, Lectures on Quantum Mechanics, W. A. Benjamin, New York,
1969.
This is a very appealing book, with just the right mixture of
formalism, intuitive arguments, and applications. it should be
considered an advanced book, accessible to the student who has
covered the material in this book.
H. A. Bethe and R. W. Jackiw, Intermediate Quantum Mechanics (2nd
edition), W. A. Benjamin, New York, 1968
This book contains detailed discussions of calculational methods
applicable to the theory of atomic structure, multiplet
splittings, the photoelectric effect, and atomic collisions.
Much of the material is not to be found in any other textbook.
The book is thus an advanced text, as well as an exhaustive
reference book.
H. A. Bethe and E. E. Salpeter, Quamtum Mechanics of One- and
Two-Electron atoms, Springer-Verlag, Berlin/New York, 1957.
This reprint of the authors' article in the Handbuch der Physik
is an elabrate, detailed, definitive treatment of the problem at
hand. It is a book about atoms and not about quantum mechanics,
and the level is high. It is an excellent refrence book.
D. Bohm, Quantum Theory, Dover, New York, 1989.
This book is discursively written, on a level comparable to the
present book. The author pays much attention to the principles
of quantum theory and gives and excellent discussion of the
quantum theory of the measurement process. There are few
applications and not many problems.
S. Borowitz, Fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics, W. A. Benjamin, New
York, 1967.
This is a well-written book, about half of which is devoted to
the theory of waves and to classical mechanics. The level is
comparable to that of the present book.
C. Cohen-Tannoudji, B. Diu, and F. Laloe, Quantum Mechanics, John
Wiley, New York, 1977.
This is and encyclopedic book of more than a thousand pages. The
student will find detailed coverage of many aspects of atomic
physics. The mathematical level is quite a bit above that of
Quantum Physics.
R. H. Dicke and J. P. Wittke, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics,
Addison-Wesley, Mass., 1960.
I enjoyed this book very much. It is on a level comparable to
the present book, and discusses a few topics, notably quantum
statistics, that are not treated here. The problems are
excellent.
P. A. M. Dirac, The Principles of Quantum Mechanics (4th edition),
Oxford University Press (Clarendon), Oxford, England, 1958.
This is a superb book by one of the major creators of quantum
mechanics. The student who has studied the material in this book
will have no trouble with Dirac; if at all serious about
mastering quantum mechanics, he or she should sooner or later go
through Dirac's book.
R. P. Feynman and A. R. Hibbs, Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals,
McGraw-Hill, New York, 1965.
In 1948, R. P. Feynman proposed a different formulation of
quantum mechanics. In this book the equivalence of this
formulation to the standard theory is demonstrated, and the
"path integral" expression for the general amplitude is
exploited in a number of calculations. The selection of material
is very interesting, and the point of view is different from the
one developed by the author. Thus this somewhat more advanced
boo k presents an excellent complement to this book.
R. P. Feynman, R. B. Leighton, and M. Sands, The Feynman Lectures on
Physics, Vol. 3, Quantum Mechanics, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass.,
1965.
In this introduction to quantum mechanics, Feynman abandons the
path integral and approaches the subject from the point of view
of state vectors. A large number of fascinating examples are
discussed with the minimum of formal apparatus. A superb
complementary book, whose only shortcoming is the absence of
problems.
K. Gottfried, Quantum Mechanics, Vol. 1, Fundamentals, W. A.
Benjamin, New York, 1966.
This is a very advanced book, distinguished by the care with
which the various topics are discussed. The treatment of the
measurement of process and of invariance principles is
excellent. The student who has mastered the material in this book
should be able to read Gottfried's book, provided he or she has
acquired the necessary mathematical equipment.
D. Griffiths, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, Prentice hall
Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1995.
This well-written, attractive book is roughly on the level of
Dicke and Wittke or Saxon. It contains a nice selection of
topics, including a discussion of the geometric phase.
G. Greenstein and A. G. Zajonc, The quantum Challenge, Jones and
Bartlett, Sudbury, Mass., 1997.
This is a fine book that deals with the foundations of quantum
mechanics from the point of view of basic experiments. It is
a real pleasure to read and makes few mathematical demands on
the reader.
W. Heisenberg, The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory, Dover,
New York, 1930.
This reprint of some 1930 lectures given by Heisenberg on the
physical significance on the quantum theory still makes good
reading. The discussion of the uncertainty relations is
particularly useful.
T. E. Jordan, Quantum Mechanics in simple Matrix Form, John Wiley,
New York, 1986.
This is a very interesting book in that it deals with quantum
mechanics in the form of originally created by W. Heisenberg, M.
Born, and P. Jordan. Calculations became much simple with the
(equivalent) wave mechanics approach of Schrodinger, but as this
brief book shows, one can do a lot with simple matrices. This is
the place where one can find the matrix solution to the hydrogen
atom, and there is a nice discussion of Bell's inequalities.
H. A. Kramers, Quatum Mechanics, Interscience, New York, 1957.
This book by one of the founders of the subject is at its best
in the discussion of spin and the introduction to relativistic
quantum theory, both rather advanced subjects. The student who
is comfortable with quantum mechanics will find browsing through
this book enjoyable and rewarding.
L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz, Quantum Mechanics (Nonrelativistic
Theory) (2nd edition), Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1965.
The book by Landau and Lifshitz is one of a series of superb
books covering all of theoretical physics. it is hard to think
of this a s textbook for any but the most sophisticated
students. Any student, however, once he reaches the advanced
level, will find much that is useful in this book. There is an
assumed mathematical facility on the part of the student.
R. L. Liboff, Introductory Quantum Mechanics, Addison Wesley
Longman, Reading, Mass., 1998.
This is a very attractive book, written on roughly the same
mathematical level as Quantum Physics. It is an excellent
alternative reference, with a more detailed treatment of solid
state physics applications.
H. J. Lipkin, Quantum Mechanics--New Approaches to Selected Topics,
North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1973.
Lipkin's book deals with a number of advanced topics in the
application of quantum mechanics, in a simple way. The physics
is always at the forefront of the discussion, and a student who
has a good command of Quantum Physics will get much benefit and
pleasure out of this book.
A. Messiah, Quantum Mechanics (in 2 volumes), John Wiley, New York,
1968.
This book gives a complete coverage of quantum theory from the
treatment of one-dimensional potentials through the quantization
of the electromagnetic field and the relativistic wave equation
of Dirac. it is an advanced book , and it assumes a mathematical
sophistication that few first-year graduate students possess. it
is an extremely worthwhile book.
E. Merzbacher, Quantum mechanics (3rd edition), John Wiley, new
York, 1998.
Together with the books of Schiff and Sakurai, this is the
standard first-year graduate text in quantum mechanics. Recent
editions have enlarged it, but the standard of economy and
taste have been maintained.
R. Omenes, Understanding Quantum Mechanics, Princeton University
Press, Princeton, N.J., 1999.
This excellent book covers a great deal of the work done in
recent years on extending or modifying the generally accepted
approach to the meaning of quantum mechanics.
H. C. Ohanian, Principles of Quantum Mechanics, Prentice Hall,
Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1990.
The basics of quantum mechanics are covered at more or less the
same level as the present book. there is a nice discussion of
Bell's theorems and a brief overview of some of "the concerns
about the interpretation of quantum mechanics."
D. Park, Introduction to the Quantum Theory, (3rd edition) McGraw
Hill, New York, 1992.
This excellent book is written at a level comparable to Quantum
Physics and complements it nicely. A variety of topics not
covered in this book are treated, such as the formation of cloud
chamber tracks, Bell's inequalities, and more details on the
motion of electrons in a periodic lattice.
W. Pauli, Die Allgemeinen Prinzipien der Wellenmechanik, Handbuch
der Physik, Vol. 5/1, Springer-Verlag, Berlin/New York, 1958.
The advanced student who reads German will find in this reprint
of a 1930 article by Pauli a concise definitive discussion of
quantum mechanics. There are no applications, but all of the
important matters are there.
P. J. E. Peebles, Quantum Mechanics, Princeton University Press,
Princeton, N.J. 1992.
This is a nicely written textbook at the undergraduate level. it
differs from other books at this level (except that by Bohm) by
a detailed discussion of what is really meant by the measurement
process in quantum mechanics.
A. B. Pippard, The Physics of Vibration, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge, England 1978.
This book covers all kinds of oscillators, classically and
quantum mechanically. It is not a textbook in the usual sense.
It is a delight to read.
J. L. Powell and b. Crasemann, Quantum Mechanics, Addison-Wesley,
Reading, Mass., 1962.
The strength of this book is in the painstaking working out of
all of the mathematical details of wave mechanics and matrix
mechanics. Probably all of the mathematical aspects of these
subjects that have been bypassed in this book can be found here.
there is a good discussion of the WKB approximation and of the
general properties of second-order differential equations. There
are relatively few applications, and there are more exercises
that problems.
R. W. Robinett, Quantum Mechanics, Orford University Press, England
1997.
This book is more or less on the same level as Quantum Physics
and it is useful as an alternative reference. There is a nice
treatment of two-dimensional quantum mechanics.
J. Schwinger, Quantum Mechanics, Springer Verlag, Berlin and
Heidelberg, 2001.
The lectures of J. Schwinger on quantum mechanics were edited
posthumously by B-G. Englert. They provide an original approach
to the formalism, and they show clearly Schwinger's wizardry in
mathematical physics.
J. J. Sakurai, Modern Quantum Mechanics (S. F. Tuan, Editor),
Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1994.
This excellent book by the late J. J. Sakurai is written at a
somewhat more advanced level than Quantum Physics, like the
books by Merzbacher and Schiff. This first-year graduate
textbook really does have a modern flavor with a selection of
topics that leads quite naturally into the areas of advanced
quantum mechanics of interest to particle physicist. The book
has an exclelent collection of problems.
D. S. Saxon, Elementary Quantum Mechanics, Holden-Day, San
Francisco, 1968.
This book is on the same level as the present one, and it is a
useful reference, since the selection of topics is just a little
different, as it is the emphasis and the choice of
applications. The book contains an excellent set of problems.
L. I. Schiff, Quantum Mechanics (3rd edition), McGraw-Hill, New
York, 1968.
This is one of the standard first year graduate textbooks. It is
perhaps a little too compact, and thus most suitable for the
well-prepared student. the level of mathematical sophistication
assumed is above that of the reader of the present book.
F. Schwabl, Quantum Mechanics, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1992.
This is a more advanced book with an interesting selection of
topics.
R. Shankar, Principles of Quantum Mechanics, Plenum, New York, 1980.
This is a more sophisticated and mathematically advanced book
than the present book. it contains alternative treatement of
some of the topics discussed in this book, and is a good
refereence.
M. P. Silverman, And Yet it Moves: Strange Systems and Subtle
Questions in Physics, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1993.
This book deals in a qualitative way with a number of topics
that involve the basic principles of quantum physics. It is fun
to read and quite accessible to the student who has covered a
good part of Quantum Mechanics.
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