Modern Quantum Mechanics

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Modern Quantum Mechanics
Modern Quantum Mechanics 3rd cover.jpg
Cover of the 3rd edition
Author J. J. Sakurai and Jim Napolitano
LanguageEnglish
SubjectQuantum mechanics
Published1985
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Publication placeUnited States
ISBN 978-1-108-64592-8
OCLC 1202949320
530.12
LC Class QC174.12
Identifiers refer to the 2020 third edition eBook unless otherwise noted

Modern Quantum Mechanics, often called Sakurai or Sakurai and Napolitano, is a standard graduate-level quantum mechanics textbook written originally by J. J. Sakurai and edited by San Fu Tuan in 1985, with later editions coauthored by Jim Napolitano. Sakurai died in 1982 before he could finish the textbook and both the first edition of the book, published in 1985 by Benjamin Cummings, and the revised edition of 1994, published by Addison-Wesley, were edited and completed by Tuan posthumously. [1] The book was updated by Napolitano and released two later editions. The second edition was initially published by Addison-Wesley in 2010 and rereleased as an eBook by Cambridge University Press, which released a third edition in 2020.

Contents

Table of contents (3rd edition)

Reception

Early editions of the book have received several reviews. [1] [2] [3] It is a standard textbook on the subject and is recommended in other works on the subject, [4] [5] [6] it has inspired other textbooks on the subject, [7] and it is used as a point of comparison in book reviews. [8] [9] [10] Along with Griffith's Introduction to Quantum Mechanics , the book was also analyzed in a review of the "Philosophical Standpoints of Textbooks in Quantum Mechanics" in June 2020. [11]

Publication history

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Commins, Eugene D. (January 1995). Tuan, S. F. (ed.). "Modern Quantum Mechanics, Revised Edition" . American Journal of Physics. 63 (1): 93–95. Bibcode:1995AmJPh..63...93S. doi:10.1119/1.17781. ISSN   0002-9505.
  2. Liboff, Richard L. (July 1986). "Modern Quantum Mechanics" . American Journal of Physics. 54 (7): 668. Bibcode:1986AmJPh..54..668S. doi:10.1119/1.14491. ISSN   0002-9505. S2CID   118277707.
  3. Newton, Roger G. (July 1986). "Modern Quantum Mechanics" . Physics Today. 39 (7): 69–70. Bibcode:1986PhT....39g..69S. doi:10.1063/1.2815083. ISSN   0031-9228.
  4. Walecka, John Dirk; Amore, Paolo (September 11, 2014). Topics In Modern Physics: Solutions To Problems. World Scientific Publishing Company. ISBN   978-981-4618-97-7.
  5. Hamada, Mitsuru (2019). "On Several Errors Regarding Mathematics for Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information Science" (PDF). Tamagawa University Quantum ICT Research Institute Bulletin. 9 (1): 29–31. ISSN   2186-6570 . Retrieved December 6, 2020.
  6. Porter, C. D.; Heckler, A. F. (June 11, 2019). "Graduate student misunderstandings of wave functions in an asymmetric well". Physical Review Physics Education Research. 15 (1): 010139. Bibcode:2019PRPER..15a0139P. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.15.010139 .
  7. Townsend, John S. (2000). A Modern Approach to Quantum Mechanics. University Science Books. p. xii. ISBN   978-1-891389-13-9.
  8. Deshpande, N. G. (August 1, 2003). "Quantum Physics: A Text for Graduate Students". Physics Today. 56 (8): 53–54. Bibcode:2003PhT....56h..53N. doi: 10.1063/1.2409992 . ISSN   0031-9228.
  9. Fowler, Michael (September 16, 2009). "Quantum Mechanics in a Nutshell" . American Journal of Physics. 77 (10): 959. doi:10.1119/1.3147682. ISSN   0002-9505.
  10. Lakshminarayanan, V. (June 1, 2005). "Book Review:Quantum Mechanics: Theory and Applications. By Ajoy K. Ghatak and S. Lokanathan, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2004, xlviii+858 pp., $303.00/ $99.00 (hardcover/softcover). ISBN 1-4020-1850-9" . Foundations of Physics. 35 (6): 1107–1109. Bibcode:2005FoPh...35.1107L. doi:10.1007/s10701-005-5831-3. ISSN   1572-9516. S2CID   119772607.
  11. Mohan, Ashwin Krishnan (June 1, 2020). "Philosophical Standpoints of Textbooks in Quantum Mechanics" . Science & Education. 29 (3): 549–569. Bibcode:2020Sc&Ed..29..549M. doi:10.1007/s11191-020-00128-4. ISSN   1573-1901. S2CID   219734868.