By Steven Weinberg
Cambridge University Press
Also available at the CERN bookshop
After the great success of the 1st edition, the textbook on modern quantum mechanics by Nobel laurate Steven Weinberg is presented in a fully updated 2nd edition.
Thanks to his profound knowledge and expertise, the author explains in an exceptionally clear and rigorous way the topics of the subject that he considers to be the most important for a one-year graduate course. He begins with an historical review of quantum mechanics and an account of classic solutions to the Schrӧdinger equation, then goes on to develop quantum mechanics in a modern Hilbert-space approach.
Weinberg gives much greater emphasis than usual to principles of symmetry, and covers subjects that are often omitted in books on quantum mechanics, such as Bloch waves, time-reversal invariance, the Wigner–Eckart theorem, isotopic spin symmetry, Levinson’s theorem, etc. This 2nd edition includes major additions to existing chapters and has also been enriched by the addition of six new sections, covering topics such as the rigid rotor and quantum-key distribution.
The author takes care to explain the formalism, to be clear and coherent, and includes numerous examples from elementary particle physics. Problems are also included at the end of each chapter. Well-structured and easily readable, this book is bound to receive the same approval as the 1st edition did.
