Research Catalog

Title

A concise treatise on quantum mechanics in phase space / Thomas L. Curtright, David B. Fairlie, Cosmas K. Zachos.

Author

Curtright, Thomas

Publication

New Jersey : World Scientific, [2014]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fairlie, David.
• Zachos, Cosmas.

Description

x, 159 pages : illustrations; 19 cm

Summary

"This is a text on quantum mechanics formulated simultaneously in terms of position and momentum, i.e. in phase space. It is written at an introductory level, drawing on the remarkable history of the subject for inspiration and motivation. Wigner functions, density matrices in a special Weyl representation, and star products are the cornerstones of the formalism"--

Alternative Title

Quantum mechanics in phase space

Subjects

• Textbooks
• Phase space (Statistical physics) > Textbooks
• Quantum theory > Textbooks

Genre/Form

Textbooks

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-155) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Historical Survey -- The Veridical Paradox -- So fasst uns das, was wir nicht fassen konnten, voller Erscheinung [Rilke] -- A Stay Against Confusion -- Dirac -- Groenewold -- Moyal -- Introduction -- The Wigner Function -- Solving for the Wigner Function -- The Uncertainty Principle -- Ehrenfest's Theorem -- Illustration: The Harmonic Oscillator -- Time Evolution -- Nondiagonal Wigner Functions -- Stationary Perturbation Theory -- Propagators and Canonical Transformations -- The Weyl Correspondence -- Alternate Rules of Association -- The Groenewold van Hove Theorem and the Uniqueness of MB and *-Products -- Advanced Topic: Quasi-Hermitian Quantum Systems -- Omitted Miscellany -- Synopses of Selected Papers.

ISBN

9789814520430 (hardcover : alk. pbk.)

LCCN

^^2013018153

OCLC

• 849822374
• SCSB-10470334

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library