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Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg combines his exceptional physical insight with his gift for clear exposition to provide a concise introduction to modern quantum mechanics. Ideally suited to a one-year graduate course, this textbook is also a useful reference for researchers. Readers are introduced to the subject through a review of the history of quantum mechanics and an account of classic solutions of the Schrödinger equation, before quantum mechanics is developed in a modern Hilbert space approach. The textbook covers many topics not often found in other books on the subject, including alternatives to the Copenhagen interpretation, Bloch waves and band structure, the Wigner–Eckart theorem, magic numbers, isospin symmetry, the Dirac theory of constrained canonical systems, general scattering theory, the optical theorem, the 'in-in' formalism, the Berry phase, Landau levels, entanglement and quantum computing. Problems are included at the ends of chapters, with solutions available for instructors at www.cambridge.org/9781107028722.

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"Steven Weinberg, a Nobel Laureate in physics, has written an exceptionally clear and coherent graduate-level textbook on modern quantum mechanics. This book presents the physical and mathematical formulations of the theory in a concise and rigorous manner. The equations are all explained step-by-step, and every term is defined. He presents a fresh, integrated approach to teaching this subject with an emphasis on symmetry principles. Weinberg demonstrates his finesse as an excellent teacher and author."
Barry R. Masters, Optics and Photonics News

"Overall, Lectures on Quantum Mechanics must be considered among the very best books on the subject for those who have had a good undergraduate introduction. The integration of clearly explained formalism with cogent physical examples is masterful, and the depth of knowledge and insight that Weinberg shares with readers is compelling."
Mark Srednicki, University of California, Santa Barbara for Physics Today

"Perhaps what distinguishes this book from the competition is its logical coherence and depth, and the care with which it has been crafted. Hardly a word is misplaced and Weinberg’s deep understanding of the subject matter means that he leaves no stone unturned: we are asked to accept very little on faith... it is for the reader to follow Weinberg in discovering the joys of quantum mechanics through a deeper level of understanding: I loved it!"
Jeff Forshaw, University of Manchester for CERN Courier

"An instant classic...clear, beautifully structured and replete with insights. This confirms (Weinberg's) reputation as not only one of the greatest theoreticians of the past 50 years, but also one of the most lucid expositors. Pure joy."
Graham Farmelo, Times Higher Education Supplement

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Steven Weinberg demonstrates his exceptional insight in this concise introduction to modern quantum mechanics for graduate students.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press; 1st edition (November 30, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 375 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1107028728
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1107028722
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.05 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1 x 9.75 inches

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Steven Weinberg (born May 3, 1933) is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles.

He holds the Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a member of the Physics and Astronomy Departments. His research on elementary particles and cosmology has been honored with numerous prizes and awards, including in 1979 the Nobel Prize in Physics and in 1991 the National Medal of Science. In 2004 he received the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the American Philosophical Society, with a citation that said he is "considered by many to be the preeminent theoretical physicist alive in the world today." He has been elected to the US National Academy of Sciences and Britain's Royal Society, as well as to the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Weinberg's articles on various subjects occasionally appear in The New York Review of Books and other periodicals. He has served as consultant at the U. S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, President of the Philosophical Society of Texas, and member of the Board of Editors of Daedalus magazine, the Council of Scholars of the Library of Congress, the JASON group of defence consultants, and many other boards and committees.

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Richard J. Turner

the best quantum mechanics text

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 7, 2013

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I have a pile of texts on quantum mechanics. Years ago I took a graduate course in quantum mechanics which was heavily mathematical. As I later discovered to my horror, many things such as Fermi's Golden Rule, and the Breit-Wigner formula were not covered. Here is what distinguishes this text.
1.) Weinberg never loses sight of the physics. Too many texts get deeply involved in the mathematical formalism and lose sight of the physics. This leads to much confusion.
2.) The clarity of the exposition is unsurpassed. I believe this is because he emphasizes physics and not mathematics, which stays in its proper place in the background.
3.) One minor point. He doesn't favor the Dirac notation. At first I was put off by this, but it was a simple matter to go back and forth in the notations, so it's not really a significant problem.
4.) He relies heavily on symmetry, the great unifying principle behind all of physics. This really ties everything together in a beautiful way.
5.) He gives just enough of the history behind quantum mechanics that one can appreciate how it was developed. He still gives a complete axiomatic account, but I think it is important for the student to understand that this is not how the subject was developed.
6.) I am hoping this text will provide an entree into his quantum field theory texts. The great difficulty in learning quantum field theory is the gulf that exists between it and non relativistic quantum mechanics. To many students it seems as if they are starting over. Hopefully, this text, with its emphasis on symmetry principles, will ameliorate that difficulty.

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Jim Curry

Could not be done better.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 5, 2013

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Weinberg is probably the greatest living physicist, especially if you think of Witten as a more mathematically inclined person. This is by far the finest course in quantum mechanics that I've ever seen. It contains the whole formalism, fully explained, and wholly up to date. The reasoning is flawless. Weinberg not only tells us what is true, but why that is true and not something else. He shows the structure of this area with great clarity, and he sets the stage for the quantum field theories that are fully relativistic. It is probably very useful to read the third volume of Feynman's lectures first, to get some intuition, but this is the whole thing, from soup to nuts. It could not be done better. I also like Kroemer's text, although it seems to me that many of the usual textbooks are rendered much less useful by the availability of this volume. The possible exception is Cohen-Tannouidj, which remains useful, I think, mainly because it is so comprehensive. It would seem absurd to me to teach out of Schiff when this is available. Quantum mechanics is so strange to my intuition, I suppose I will never stop reading texts, hoping eventually to sort out some of the strange aspects of it. Every time I think I understand, it becomes clear I do not---at all.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 5, 2013

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Weinberg finally wrote a book on non-relativistic quantum mechanics. Anybody who's read his other books knows he's a master of clear prose. The concision and clarity of his exposition rivals that of any other physics author. Furthermore, you *know* that Weinberg knows what he's talking about when it comes to theoretical physics. Is a review for this book even needed? Maybe not . . .

On the downside, I will say that this book (along with his former book, "Cosmology") has a few more typos than his earlier texts (which had shockingly minimal typos), though his books are still more careful and meticulous than most others out there. An upside is that the selection of topics is refreshingly different than a lot of other texts. He actually discusses how to transition to a continuum limit in a Hilbert space. He actually gives symmetries the attention they deserve in NRQM. It's nice to have a mainstream textbook with a readable, concise, and yet careful discussion of elementary scattering theory. He even gives a nice discussion of the S-matrix and path integration in a non-relativistic context. Clearly his lectures were meant to prepare students for his QFT courses, and thus it makes perfect sense that this book provides a good preparation for tackling his famous series "The Quantum Theory of Fields."

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Huzzah! Kindle edition is readable.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 22, 2013

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I have an iPad (non-Retina), a 4th gen e-ink Kindle and a Kindle Fire HD. The equations are most readable in the Kindle app on the iPad, where their size is more in proportion with the text. The math typesetting suffers a bit on the smaller Kindles because it seems too small relative to the text, though still legible. I'd guess that it would look better on larger format Kindles.

The sample has plenty of equations in it, so it's a good test of readability on your device.

There are a few places where typesetting is munged a bit (mainly in math symbols inline with the text like subscripted subscripts, e.g. _{n a_{n}} in TeX notation, becomes just _{nan} inline; does this occur in the hardcopy?). For that reason, I'm removing a star. The publisher should have spotted the problem and corrected it.

I'll note that Cambridge does offer an Adobe ebook, but I still find PDFs rather frustrating to navigate even on the HD Kindle.

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Jihoon

Decent book, concise and quite general in treatment. Has some typos since its 1st edition.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 12, 2013

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This was used for my Grad Quantum class. I think most of the chapters were pretty readable for a graduate text. I never took a grad QM course before, so I'm not sure how it is supposed to be, but most of the chapters followed quite clearly from my undergraduate QM classes. There are some points where weinberg jumps from one step to another and I couldn't follow, but I'm not quite sure if that's how it is supposed to be for grad textbooks. I have a feeling that when the typos are fixed, it may become more straightforward. The author uses somewhat nonstandard notation(instead of Bra-ket, he uses inner products) but they are not that different so its fine when you get used to it. There are some typos in this book, but I guess that's to be expected since this is the first edition.

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Tom Dennis

Good, with some reservations

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 9, 2013

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This is certainly the best textbook on Quantum Mechanics I've seen. I bought it principally to be a good reference for the basics, and it fulfils this purpose well. Weinberg focuses on symmetries early in the book, which is pedagogically excellent for aspiring theoretical physicists. I'd strongly recommend this book as a first course in the subject also.

However there are two niggling issues. Firstly Weinberg doesn't use Dirac's bra-ket notation. He is correct to say that it is irritating sometimes (mostly because operators are presumed to act to the right). However, I would say that its benefits outweigh its faults. Secondly Weinberg omits a proper discussion of tensor product states and multiparticle systems.

Both of these topics are covered in online resources, so I'd still recommend you purchase this book. See for example http://www.mathematik.uni-muenchen.de/~lerdos/WS08/QM/solovejnotes.pdf for information on tensor products.

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R. J. A. Tough

An exceptional 'elementary' text

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 23, 2013

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Weinberg's latest book is perhaps the ultimate undergraduate quantum mechanics text, that can be read with profit by under-graduates, graduates, post-graduates and just about anybody else with an interest in physics. The author doesn't avoid the conceptual and calculational difficulties peculiar to his subject matter, and encourages his readers not to be over-awed by them. His written style is clear; there are lots of detailed calculations to show the reader how it's done, and exercises to check that the reader can too. The first eleven chapters cover ground familiar from the textbooks of days gone by, such as Schiff's and Messiah's; chapter twelve introduces 'modern' topics such as entanglement, Bell's inequalities and quantum computing. This book would also be an excellent primer for the author's three volume exposition of Quantum Field Theory. I just wish that it had been around when I was an undergraduate.

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Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 22, 2015

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A graduate text on quantum mechanics. Covers perturbation theory and scattering not available in many texts.

Ronnie

Amazing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 23, 2013

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I thought I knew most of the books on quantum mechanics - how come I didn't know about this gem. It's tough going, even for someone like me with a masters in mathematical physics, but it's well worth the effort. As with his texts on quantum field theory, Weinberg gives us, as always, an in-depth, sparkling clear and mature treatment written with 100% confidence. Nice and useful to have for reference and further study

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Dr G

Outstanding

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 30, 2013

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I guess with an author like Weinberg you would expect a good product...but, of course, we've all experienced top people not being able to communicate to lesser mortals like you and me. Weinberg can communicate.

The book is able to provide clarity and depth of coverage. Griffiths book has a similar level of clarity but is a little more suited to undergraduates and covers basic ideas a little more. This book touches on slightly more advanced concepts.

A rigorous and clear explanation of the principles behind QM.

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