Modern Quantum Mechanics (Revised Edition) | 
 enlarge | Author: J. J. Sakurai
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 314847
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Rev Sub
Pages: 500
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.5 x 1.3
ISBN: 0201539292
Dewey Decimal Number: 530.12
EAN: 9780201539295
Publication Date: September 10, 1993
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This best-selling classic sets the standard for the quantum mechanics physics market. It provides a graduate-level, non-historical, modern introduction of quantum mechanical concepts for first year graduate students. The author was a noted theorist in particle theory, and was well renowned in his area of expertise. This revised edition retains the original material, but adds topics that extend its usefulness into the 21st century. Students will still find such classic developments as neutron interferometer experiments, Feyman path integrals, correlation measurements, and Bell's inequality. Updated material includes time independent perturbation theory for The Degenerate Case which can be found in 5. New supplementary material is at the end of the text.
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 My favorite physics text November 9, 1999
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I truly love this book. The sections that Sakurai wrote could not have been written better. He uses Dirac's notation from the beginning, which provides the reader with a much better understanding of what's going on than the usual wave mechanics intro. There are some weak points, however- mostly sections that were added after Sakurai died. The treatment of time-independent PT in chapter 5 is unnecessarily wordy and complicated. Chapter 6 on multiparticle states is fair to brief. I didn't think that the scattering sections in chapter 7 were very good, but I haven't seen it done well anywhere else either. Everything else, however, is wonderful.
A first-class book on quantum mechanics December 14, 1999
Randolph Best (Norman, Oklahoma, USA.)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Sakurai was one of the smartest physicists of his generation, and it shows in this book. A characteristic of the physics writings of such greats as Einstein, Pauli, Heisenberg, and Dirac is that they make advanced physics theories seem so clear and transparent that one is always inclined to think, "of course, that's the way to do it." Sakurai's book comes across the same way, but there are plenty of good problems to bring you back down to Earth. Especially useful are the discussions of Feynman path integrals, the Aharonov-Bohm effect, the WKB approximation, Schwinger's treatment of angular momentum, and the Dyson series in perturbation theory.
One of the best books on QM February 20, 2004
Janosch Lenzi (Firenze, Fi Italy)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Well, I've read all of this book some years ago and, at that time (while learning for my QM I and QM II exams) I used this book together with L.D.Landau (non relativistic QM), W.Greiner (vol. I, II and some of III), F. Schwabl (QM) and the everused R.Shankar (QM). In the following years I went on using J.Sakurai several times as a reference. Today, I think that J.Sakurai book is one of the best choices for learning QM: his treatment of spin theory in QM is still one of the best (probably the best!). Just the last 2 chapters seem to me a bit uneven compared to the rest of the book. I must also say: if you have to learn QM, then you'll have to use Sakurai together with another book that tells you something more about the introductory part of QM (ondulatory mechanics and so on: for example, a good choice would be M.Born, Gasiorowicz, Greiner vol. I, or Schwabl), but J.Sakurai and L.D.Landau are, in my opinion, probably still the best textbooks on the core part of QM.
Very good book for postgraduates January 10, 1999
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book serves as a very good introduction to advanced quantum mechanics course. It contains standard contents and some new developements such as Bell's Inequality, Aharonov-Bohm effect etc. All of these are well presented. The book is concise but still contains enough details. Anyone having this book will love it!!
One of the better QM books out there September 11, 2003
James H. McDuffie (Huntsville, Alabama United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Out of the books I have studied for QM, this is my favorite. Some of the details are missing and the perturbation theory and scattering sections do need additional details but overall I found his method of introducing the Dirac notation about the best for me personally. Others may differ. Make no mistake about it: this is not a book that you can just hand to a student and tell them to go on about it and be a responsible instructor. It does suffer from the same limitation as almost all other QM books: it just teaches QM but does not tell the student what theoretical physics is all about. They probably do this because the course is for such a wide range of people. But I still believe the communication of this information lends insight unavailable elsewhere and useful for all. That is what make Dirac's book on QM great even today (although I will not presume to maintain its relevance for the modern student).
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