Graduate students who want to become familiar with advanced computational strategies in classical and quantum dynamics will find in this book both the fundamentals of a standard course and a detailed treatment of the time-dependent oscillator, Chern-Simons mechanics, the Maslov anomaly and the Berry phase, to name a few. Well-chosen and detailed examples illustrate the perturbation theory, canonical transformations, the action principle and demonstrate the usage of path integrals.
This fifth edition has been revised and enlarged with chapters on quantum electrodynamics, in particular on Schwinger’s proper time method, and by treating classical and quantum mechanics with Lie brackets and pseudocanonical transformations. It is shown that operator quantum electrodynamics can be equivalently described with c-numbers as demonstrated by calculating the propagation function for an electron in a prescribed classical electromagnetic field.
- ISBN: 978-3-319-58297-9
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 490
- Fecha Publicación: 08/07/2017
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés