Quantum Mechanics

Quantum Mechanics #1-2

by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Bernard Diu, Frank Laloe

Beginning students of quantum mechanics frequently experience difficulties separating essential underlying principles from the specific examples to which these principles have been historically applied. Nobel–Prize–winner Claude Cohen–Tannoudji and his colleagues have written this book to eliminate precisely these difficulties. Fourteen chapters provide a clarity of organization, careful attention to pedagogical details, and a wealth of topics and examples which make this work a textbook as well as a timeless reference, allowing to tailor courses to meet students′ specific needs. Each chapter starts with a clear exposition of the problem which is then treated, and logically develops the physical and mathematical concept. These chapters emphasize the underlying principles of the material, undiluted by extensive references to applications and practical examples which are put into complementary sections. The book begins with a qualitative introduction to quantum mechanical ideas u

Genres: Physics, Science, Textbooks, Quantum Mechanics, Nonfiction

1524 pages, Paperback

First published June 28, 1977

Reviews

[Helgi · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very linear and a good book to teach quantum mechanics. This collection of chapters written by various people and edited by Cohen may seem impersonal but it delivers its point with great clarity.

[Sergio · Rating 1 out of 5]

Este libro parece que está escrito por alguien con una pésima capacidad de comunicación que es incapaz de enseñar a alguien a hacer la "o" con un canuto y pretende que aprenda a sumar los momentos angulares de dos electrones o trabajar con la notación de Dirac.

[Dan Tice · Rating 3 out of 5]

The description for the books is pretty apt. This book is dense like no other Quantum Mechanical reference text.

[Ida · Rating 5 out of 5]

The books are a true delight and one very often ends up reading much more than what one has intended to look up.

[Akli Bouchekal · Rating 5 out of 5]

El santo grial de la qm

[Sangeet. S · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the most complete treatises on the theory, these books have surprisingly great insight and are very rigorous as well.

There are some areas where the books forsake generality for rigour so they aren't ideal for some topics, but used at an introductory level they can lay the best foundation for an advanced course of Quantum Theory.

[William Bies · Rating 4 out of 5]

It seems as if, over the past three generations, every physicist who thinks himself worth his salt feels called upon to write a textbook on quantum mechanics. Little purpose would be served by reading them all; we wish merely to focus on two particularly happy outcomes of this enterprise, those by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Bernard Diu and Franck Laloë (subject of the present review) and by Arno Bohm (review to follow in a moment). This reviewer is partial to the former as it was the text from which he first learned about quantum mechanics, long ago. Even so, looking back he can judge it to have been a good choice on the part of his professor, for Cohen-Tannoudji is designed with the needs of the student uppermost in mind.

The authors hew to a strictly deductive and a-historical viewpoint. One will encounter no philosophy here, which omission the authors justify on the grounds that one ought first to be conversant with the orthodox view before entertaining a discussion of alternatives. Another characteristic feature is the separation into a chapter-complement format: the main text of each chapter sparsely presents the elements of the theory without the distraction of too many examples, but in compensation each chapter is outfitted with a wealth of complements going more deeply into various aspects of the exposition or setting forth the solution of paradigmatic problems. (The authors do not suppose that the student will go through all the complements in a first course, but they are there to refer to later as occasion may demand; moreover, the student may exercise the option of selecting which among them to review.)

Advantages: conceptually very clear, informative figures and diagrams, logical flow from postulates, uniform notation throughout, many explicit formulae e.g. derivation from first principles of the van der Waals force, the Heitler-London theory of the chemical bond, hyperfine structure and the Zeeman and Stark effects. Disadvantages: naïve in the Diracian sense about the technicalities, much less thorough than Bohm in discussing the applicability of idealized models to real-world cases and no experimental data whatsoever!

To sum up, Cohen-Tannoudji may be heartily recommended to the beginning student who wants to get up to speed or to the practitioner who is looking for a good reference. Less suited to the researcher who wishes to investigate the foundations of quantum physics – as the authors understand very well, this lies outside of the scope of their pedagogical aim, but they acquit themselves the best they can on this score by providing a select bibliography for those who seek to delve more deeply into the material.

[T Dodson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the physicist's go-to book for quantum mechanics. It's in a 2 volume set, since it's expanded with several complements per chapter that segue to different topics. You'd think that it would make for a confusing read with seemingly diverging topics - but it helps to develop intuition (for instance, with many analogies to optics, particularly to polarization phenomenon). My favorite parts of the book were those which discussed circularized angular momentum raising and lowering operators.

[Hany · Rating 5 out of 5]

من أحسن كتب ال-Quantum Mechanics و ده راجع لكون المؤلف حاصل على جايزة نوبل عام1997

من ضمن ال-Chapters العظيمة اللي في الكتاب Chapter بعنوان Spin 1/2 and 2 Level Systems شرح وفر و كافي ل-model من أهم ال-models المستخدمة في مجالات حديثة، ذي ال-Quantum Computing و Laser Physics . كمان ال-Treatment لل-Hydrogen atom و ال-Angular Momentum ممتازة!!

انصح بالكتاب ده لل-Undergrad و ال-Post-grad كمان.

[Ryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Way too overly complete. The ultimate reference. Not for the faint of heart.

[Katie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very detailed. Takes a bit to get through. Fairly complete quantum text though.

[Gorana]

note: should be among best textbooks in the filed. read next.

[Omar Nemoul]

The bible of quantum mechanics for beginner

[Fotis · Rating 5 out of 5]

The bible of QM.

[Lulu]

Quantum Mechanics