Modern Quantum Mechanics

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{{Infobox book

| name = Modern Quantum Mechanics

| image = File:Modern_Quantum_Mechanics_3rd_cover.jpg

| caption = Cover of the 3rd edition

| author = J. J. Sakurai and Jim Napolitano

| language = English

| country = United States

| subject = Quantum mechanics

| published = 1985

| publisher = Cambridge University Press

| congress = QC174.12

| dewey = 530.12

| isbn = 978-1-108-64592-8

| oclc = 1202949320

| notes = Identifiers refer to the 2020 third edition eBook unless otherwise noted

}}

Modern Quantum Mechanics, often called Sakurai or Sakurai and Napolitano, is a standard graduate-level quantum mechanics textbook written originally by J. J. Sakurai and edited by San Fu Tuan in 1985, with later editions coauthored by Jim Napolitano. Sakurai died in 1982 before he could finish the textbook and both the first edition of the book, published in 1985 by Benjamin Cummings, and the revised edition of 1994, published by Addison-Wesley, were edited and completed by Tuan posthumously. The book was updated by Napolitano and released two later editions. The second edition was initially published by Addison-Wesley in 2010 and rereleased as an eBook by Cambridge University Press, who released a third edition in 2020.

Table of contents (3rd edition)

Prefaces
Chapter 1: Fundamental Concepts
Chapter 2: Quantum Dynamics
Chapter 3: Theory of Angular Momentum
Chapter 4: Symmetry in Quantum Mechanics
Chapter 5: Approximation Methods
Chapter 6: Scattering Theory
Chapter 7: Identical Particles
Chapter 8: Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
Appendix A: Electromagnetic Units
Appendix B: Elementary Solutions to Schrödinger's Wave Equation
Appendix C: Hamiltonian for a Charge in an Electromagnetic Field
Appendix D: Proof of the Angular-Momentum Rule (3.358)
Appendix E: Finding Clebsch-Gordan Coefficients
Appendix F: Notes on Complex Variables
Bibliography
Index

Reception

Early editions of the book have received several reviews.{{Cite journal|last=Commins|first=Eugene D.|author-link=Eugene D. Commins|date=January 1995|editor-last=Tuan|editor-first=S. F.|title=Modern Quantum Mechanics, Revised Edition|url=http://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.17781|journal=American Journal of Physics|language=en|volume=63|issue=1|pages=93–95|doi=10.1119/1.17781|bibcode=1995AmJPh..63...93S|issn=0002-9505|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|last=Liboff|first=Richard L.|author-link=Richard Liboff|date=July 1986|title=Modern Quantum Mechanics|url=http://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.14491|journal=American Journal of Physics|language=en|volume=54|issue=7|pages=668|doi=10.1119/1.14491|bibcode=1986AmJPh..54..668S|s2cid=118277707 |issn=0002-9505|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|last=Newton|first=Roger G.|author-link=Roger G. Newton|date=July 1986|title=Modern Quantum Mechanics|url=http://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.2815083|journal=Physics Today|language=en|volume=39|issue=7|pages=69–70|doi=10.1063/1.2815083|bibcode=1986PhT....39g..69S|issn=0031-9228|url-access=subscription}} It is a standard textbook on the subject and is recommended in other works on the subject,{{Cite book|last1=Walecka|first1=John Dirk|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bjI8DQAAQBAJ&q=%22sakurai%22+%22napolitano%22&pg=PR5|title=Topics In Modern Physics: Solutions To Problems|last2=Amore|first2=Paolo|date=2014-09-11|publisher=World Scientific Publishing Company|isbn=978-981-4618-97-7|language=en}}{{cite journal |last1=Hamada |first1=Mitsuru |title=On Several Errors Regarding Mathematics for Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information Science|url=https://www.tamagawa.jp/research/quantum/bulletin/pdf/Tamagawa.Vol.9-4.pdf |journal=Tamagawa University Quantum ICT Research Institute Bulletin |date=2019 |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=29–31 |access-date=6 December 2020 |issn=2186-6570}}{{Cite journal|last1=Porter|first1=C. D.|last2=Heckler|first2=A. F.|date=2019-06-11|title=Graduate student misunderstandings of wave functions in an asymmetric well|journal=Physical Review Physics Education Research|volume=15|issue=1|pages=010139|doi=10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.15.010139|bibcode=2019PRPER..15a0139P|doi-access=free}} it has inspired other textbooks on the subject,{{Cite book|last=Townsend|first=John S.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3_7uriPX028C&q=sakurai+modern+quantum+mechanics&pg=PR11|title=A Modern Approach to Quantum Mechanics|date=2000|publisher=University Science Books|isbn=978-1-891389-13-9|language=en|page=xii}} and it is used as a point of comparison in book reviews.{{Cite journal|last=Deshpande|first=N. G.|date=2003-08-01|title=Quantum Physics: A Text for Graduate Students|journal=Physics Today|volume=56|issue=8|pages=53–54|doi=10.1063/1.2409992|bibcode=2003PhT....56h..53N|issn=0031-9228|doi-access=free}}{{Cite journal|last=Fowler|first=Michael|date=2009-09-16|title=Quantum Mechanics in a Nutshell|url=https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.3147682|journal=American Journal of Physics|volume=77|issue=10|pages=959|doi=10.1119/1.3147682|issn=0002-9505|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|last=Lakshminarayanan|first=V.|date=2005-06-01|title=Book Review:Quantum Mechanics: Theory and Applications. By Ajoy K. Ghatak and S. Lokanathan, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2004, xlviii+858 pp., $303.00/ $99.00 (hardcover/softcover). ISBN 1-4020-1850-9.|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-005-5831-3|journal=Foundations of Physics|language=en|volume=35|issue=6|pages=1107–1109|doi=10.1007/s10701-005-5831-3|bibcode=2005FoPh...35.1107L|s2cid=119772607|issn=1572-9516|url-access=subscription}} Along with Griffith's Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, the book was also analyzed in a review of the "Philosophical Standpoints of Textbooks in Quantum Mechanics" in June 2020.{{Cite journal|last=Mohan|first=Ashwin Krishnan|date=2020-06-01|title=Philosophical Standpoints of Textbooks in Quantum Mechanics|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-020-00128-4|journal=Science & Education|language=en|volume=29|issue=3|pages=549–569|doi=10.1007/s11191-020-00128-4|bibcode=2020Sc&Ed..29..549M|s2cid=219734868|issn=1573-1901|url-access=subscription}}

Publication history

{{Cite book|last=Sakurai, J. J.|title=Modern Quantum Mechanics|date=1985|editor-last=Tuan|editor-first=San Fu|publisher=Benjamin Cummings|isbn=0-8053-7501-5|edition=1st|location=Menlo Park, Calif.|oclc=11518382}}
{{Cite book|last=Sakurai, J. J.|title=Modern Quantum Mechanics|date=1994|editor-last=Tuan|editor-first=San Fu|publisher=Addison-Wesley|isbn=0-201-53929-2|edition=Rev.|location=Reading, Mass.|oclc=28065703}} (hardcover)
{{Cite book|last1=Sakurai, J. J.|last2=Napolitano, Jim|title=Modern quantum mechanics|date=2010|publisher=Addison-Wesley|isbn=978-0-8053-8291-4|edition=2nd|location=Boston|oclc=641998678}} (hardcover)
{{Cite book|last1=Sakurai, J. J.|title=Modern Quantum Mechanics|last2=Napolitano, Jim|isbn=978-1-108-49999-6|date=2017|edition=2nd|location=Cambridge|oclc=1105708539}} (eBook)
{{Cite book|last1=Sakurai, J. J.|title=Modern Quantum Mechanics|last2=Napolitano, Jim|isbn=978-1-108-47322-4|date=2020|edition=3rd|location=Cambridge|oclc=1202949320}} (hardcover)
{{Cite book|last1=Sakurai, J. J.|title=Modern Quantum Mechanics|last2=Napolitano, Jim|isbn=978-1-108-64592-8|date=2020|edition=3rd|location=Cambridge|oclc=1202949320}} (eBook)

References

External links

[https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/modern-quantum-mechanics/AAE1925F1A0963C6124421B03D7801AE Publisher's website for the 2nd edition]
[https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/physics/quantum-physics-quantum-information-and-quantum-computation/modern-quantum-mechanics-3rd-edition?format=HB Publisher's website for the 3rd edition]
[https://archive.org/details/ModernQuantumMechanicsJ.J.Sakurai Book in the Internet Archive]

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