Contemporary Quantum Mechanics in Practice

Prof Lilia M. Woods is Professor and Associate Chair at the Department of Physics, University of South Florida where she has taught many courses in the past two decades. An academician with a stellar publication record, her research focus is on several aspects of quantum mechanics, nanomaterials, device-modelling etc. Pablo Rodríguez López is an assistant professor at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid and is a part of the GISC. Since finishing his PhD at the Complutense University of Madrid, followed by postdoctoral experience at the University of Loughborough, the National Centre for Scientific Research of France (CNRS) and Spain (CSIC), and the University of South Florida, he has been a collaborator of Lilia M. Woods and has authored many high-impact publications.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Operators, Transformations, and Symmetry; 3. Geometrical Phases; 4. Density Operator; 5. Identical Particles and Elements of Second Quantization; 6. Relativistic Effects in Quantum Mechanics: the Dirac Equation; References; Index.

'The rapid development of quantum science and technology in the last quarter of a century has made it necessary to redesign introductory courses in quantum mechanics in order to incorporate new developments. This book by Woods and Lopez fills the urgent need for a modern problem book for such courses. Its selection of topics is well balanced, and the problems are designed to provide a stepping stone to issues of contemporary research.' Charis Anastopoulos, University of Patras