Quantum Mechanics: New Approaches to Selected Topics

Preface. Polarized Photons for Pedestrians. 1. Polarized photons and quantum theory. Momentum Transfer to Bound Systems and the Mossbauer Effect. 2. The Mossbauer effect. 3. The Mossbauer effect in a solid. 4. The Mossbauer effect and momentum transfer to bound systems. Many-Particle Qauntum Mechanics for Pedestrians (Part I). 5. Identical particles and second quantization. 6. Identical composite particles and bound systems. Kaon Decay for Pedestrians. 7. Kaon decay. Scattering Theory for Pedestrians. 8. One-Dimensional Scattering in Quantum Mechanics. The Many-Body Problem for Pedestrians (Part 2). 9. The many-body problem in quantum mechanics. 10. Pairing correlation and the BCS theory. 11. Elementary excitations in many-body systems. Feynman Diagrams for Pedestrians. 12. Feynman diagrams, propagators and fields. Symmetries, Invariance and Relativistic Quantum Mechanics for Pedestrians. 13. Introduction to relativistic quantum mechanics. 14. Invariance, symmetry transformations and conservation laws. 15. The Lorentz group. Bibliography. Index.