Engineering Quantum Mechanics (Hardcover)

A clear introduction to quantum mechanics concepts

Quantum mechanics has become an essential tool for modern engineering, particularly due to the recent developments in quantum computing as well as the rapid progress in optoelectronic devices. Engineering Quantum Mechanics explains the fundamentals of this exciting field, providing broad coverage of both traditional areas such as semiconductor and laser physics as well as relatively new yet fast-growing areas such as quantum computation and quantum information technology.

The book begins with basic quantum mechanics, reviewing measurements and probability, Dirac formulation, the uncertainty principle, harmonic oscillator, angular momentum eigenstates, and perturbation theory. Then, quantum statistical mechanics is explored, from second quantization and density operators to coherent and squeezed states, coherent interactions between atoms and fields, and the Jaynes-Cummings model. From there, the book moves into elementary and modern applications, discussing such topics as Bloch theorem and effective mass theory, crystal orientation effects for zinc-blend and wurtzite Hamiltonian, and quantum entanglements and teleportation.

There has been growing interest in the model of semiconductor lasers with non-Markovian relaxation. This book develops a non-Markovian model for the optical gain in semiconductor materials, taking into account the rigorous electronic band-structure and the non-Markovian relaxation using the quantum statistical reduced-density operator formalism. Many-body effects are taken into account within the time-dependent Hartree-Fock equations, and example programs based on Fortran 77 are provided for band-structures of zinc-blend quantum wells.

Engineering Quantum Mechanics is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in electrical engineering, physics, and materials science. It also provides the necessary theoretical background for researchers in optoelectronics or semiconductor devices.

一本關於量子力學概念的清晰介紹

量子力學已成為現代工程學的重要工具，尤其是由於量子計算和光電子設備的快速發展。《工程量子力學》解釋了這一令人興奮的領域的基礎知識，廣泛涵蓋了傳統領域（如半導體和激光物理）以及相對較新但快速增長的領域（如量子計算和量子信息技術）。

本書首先介紹了基礎的量子力學，包括測量和概率、狄拉克表述、不確定性原理、諧振子、角動量本徵態和微擾理論。然後，探討了量子統計力學，從二次量子化和密度算符到相干和擠壓態、原子和場之間的相干相互作用，以及詹斯-康明斯模型。接下來，本書介紹了基礎和現代應用，討論了布洛赫定理和有效質量理論、鋅礦和石英結構哈密頓量的晶體取向效應，以及量子紛亂和遠距傳輸等主題。

近年來，對於具有非馬可夫鬆弛的半導體激光器模型越來越感興趣。本書利用量子統計縮減密度算符形式主義，考慮了嚴格的電子能帶結構和非馬可夫鬆弛，發展了半導體材料光增益的非馬可夫模型。多體效應在時間依賴的哈特里-福克方程中得到考慮，並提供了基於Fortran 77的鋅礦量子井帶結構的示例程序。

《工程量子力學》適用於電氣工程、物理學和材料科學的高年級本科生和研究生。它還為光電子學或半導體器件的研究人員提供了必要的理論背景。