{"product_id":"engineering-quantum-mechanics-hardback-9780470107638","title":"Engineering Quantum Mechanics (Hardback) 9780470107638","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEngineering Quantum Mechanics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDoyeol Ahn (Author), Seoung-Hwan Park (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780470107638, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 August 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e314 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.4 x 16 x 2.3 cm, 0.603 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The present book is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in electrical engineering, physics, and material science. It also provides the necessary theoretical back-ground for researchers in optoelectronics or semiconductor devices.”  (\u003ci\u003eZentralblatt MATH\u003c\/i\u003e, 2012)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Ahn (quantum electronics, U. of Seoul) and Park (electronic engineering, Catholic U. of Daegu, Korea) present a textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in electrical engineering, physics, and materials science and engineering on quantum mechanics as it is increasingly being used in these fields. It also provides the necessary theoretical background for researchers in optoelectronics or semiconductor devices.\" (Book News, 1 October 2011)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThere has been growing interest in the model of semiconductor lasers with non-Markovian relaxation. Introducing senior and graduate students and research scientists to quantum mechanics concepts, which are becoming an essential tool in modern engineering, \u003ci\u003eEngineering Quantum Mechanics\u003c\/i\u003e develops a non-Markovian model for the optical gain of semiconductor, taking into account the rigorous electronic band-structure and the non-Markovian relaxation using the quantum statistical reduced-density operator formalism. Example programs based on Fortran 77 are provided for band-structures of zinc-blende and wurtzite quantum wells.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePreface vii\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I Fundamentals 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Basic Quantum Mechanics 3\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1 Measurements and Probability 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.2 Dirac Formulation 4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3 Brief Detour to Classical Mechanics 8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.4 A Road to Quantum Mechanics 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.5 The Uncertainty Principle 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.6 The Harmonic Oscillator 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.7 Angular Momentum Eigenstates 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.8 Quantization of Electromagnetic Fields 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.9 Perturbation Theory 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblems 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Basic Quantum Statistical Mechanics 45\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1 Elementary Statistical Mechanics 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2 Second Quantization 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3 Density Operators 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4 The Coherent State 58\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.5 The Squeezed State 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.6 Coherent Interactions Between Atoms and Fields 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.7 The Jaynes–Cummings Model 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblems 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Elementary Theory of Electronic Band Structure in Semiconductors 73\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1 Bloch Theorem and Effective Mass Theory 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2 The Luttinger–Kohn Hamiltonian 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3 The Zinc Blende Hamiltonian 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.4 The Wurtzite Hamiltonian 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5 Band Structure of Zinc Blende and Wurtzite Semiconductors 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.6 Crystal Orientation Effects on a Zinc Blende Hamiltonian 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.7 Crystal Orientation Effects on a Wurtzite Hamiltonian 152\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblems 168\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II Modern Applications 171\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Quantum Information Science 173\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1 Quantum Bits and Tensor Products 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2 Quantum Entanglement 175\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3 Quantum Teleportation 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4 Evolution of the Quantum State: Quantum Information Processing 180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.5 A Measure of Information 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.6 Quantum Black Holes 184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix A: Derivation of Equation (4.82) 202\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix B: Derivation of Equations (4.93) and (4.106) 203\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblems 204\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 205\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Modern Semiconductor Laser Theory 207\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.1 Density Operator Description of Optical Interactions 209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2 The Time-Convolutionless Equation 211\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3 The Theory of Non-Markovian Optical Gain in Semiconductor Lasers 223\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4 Optical Gain of a Quantum Well Laser with Non-Markovian Relaxation and Many-Body Effects 232\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.5 Numerical Methods for Valence Band Structure in Nanostructures 235\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.6 Zinc Blende Bulk and Quantum Well Structures 252\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.7 Wurtzite Bulk and Quantum Well Structures 258\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.8 Quantum Wires and Quantum Dots 265\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix: Fortran 77 Code for the Band Structure 274\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblems 286\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 287\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIndex 289\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Electronics \u0026amp; 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