Introduction to Quantum Mechanics

Introduction to Quantum Mechanics is a completely original manifesto, covering quantum mechanicsfrom a time-dependent perspective in a unified way from beginning to end. This text will change the way people think about and teachabout quantum mechanics in chemistry and physics departments.
This brilliant new text, a completely original manifesto, covers quantum mechanics from a time-dependent perspective in a unified way from beginning to end. Intended for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in quantum mechanics, this text will change the way people think about and teach about quantum mechanics in chemistry and physics departments.I Pictures and Concepts
1. The Time Dependent Schrödinger Equation
2. The Free Particle Wave Packet
3. The Gaussian Wavepacket
4. Classical-Quantum Correspondence
5. The Wigner Representation
6. Correlation Functions and Spectra
7. One Dimensional Barrier Scattering
II Formal Theory and Methods of Approximation
8. Linear Algebra and Quantum Mechanics
9. Approximate Solutions
10. Semiclassical Mechanics
11. Numerical Methods
III Applications
12. Introduction to Molecular Dynamics
13. Femtosecond Pulse Pair Excitation
14. One- and Two-Photon Electronic Spectroscopy
15. Strong Field Excitation
16. Design of Femtosecond Pulse Sequences to Control Reactions
17. Wavepacket Approach to Photodissociation
18. Wavepacket Approach to Reactive Scattering
19. Projects
Index"David Tannor has organized the basic concepts of time-dependent quantum mechanics in a form that will be accessible to beginning and established researchers in the general area of modern molecular physics and chemistry. This book will be a valuable resource to those seeking to understand chemical dynamics from the perspective of what actually happens." --Jeffrey A. Cina, University of Oregon

"It contains a wealth of valuable material that is difficult to find elsewhere. It is also well written." --John C. Tully, Yale University

"Tannor provides a rigorous, self-contained development of modern time-dependent quantum mechanics and discusses numerous applications in molecular spectroscopy and reaction dynamics. With its fresh and conceptually appealing perspective, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics could change how quantum mechanics is perceived and taught." --Science, vol 319, p 161 (11 January 2008)

"The students in my class really appreciated the modern viewpoint with regard to both theory and experiment. The insightful treatments of many theoretical concepts, including semiclassical theory, wavepacket dynamics, and control theory are unique to this text. The Tannor book is a real winner and should be considered a standard text for graduate courses in physical chemistry." --Robert Wyatt, University of Texas

"This book is not only a new and much needed vehicle for training the current generation of students, but also the impulse required to change the momentum of textbook writers of the future, toward a balanced approach to quantum molecular dynamics." --Eric Heller, Harvard UniversityDavid Tannor is a Professor of Chemical Physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science . He received his BA from Columbia University in 1978, his PhD from UCLA in 1983, and worked as a Post-Doc with Professor Stuart Rice and David Oxtoby at the University of Chicago. His research interests currently include the design of specially tailored laser pulses to control breaking of chemical bonds and laser cooling of molecules; the calculation of chemical reaction probabilities and rate constants, using quantum mechanical and semiclassical methods; and the development of concepts and methods for simulating quantum mechanical motion of molecules in a solvent. In all three of these areas, Tannor uses time dependent quantum mechanics, where a moving wavepacket is the central dynamical object.