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Map: Quantum Leaps and Bounds (McMillan)

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    Quantum Leaps and Bounds (QLB) is a six-volume set of lecture notes in book form for the introductory graduate quantum mechanics course given by Malcolm McMillan at UBC QLB assumes no familiarity with relativistic quantum mechanics. It does assume that students have taken undergraduate courses in Schrödinger equation and the solutions of some standard problems (e.g., the one-dimensional harmonic oscillator and the hydrogen atom) and perturbation and other approximation methods. QLB assumes also that students will take other graduate courses in condensed matter physics, nuclear and particle physics and relativistic quantum field theory. Accordingly, the emphasis in QLB is to introduce some basic ideas and formalism in a coherent manner and thereby give students sufficient background to read the many excellent texts on these subjects.

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    This page titled Map: Quantum Leaps and Bounds (McMillan) is shared under a not declared license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Malcolm McMillian.

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