{"product_id":"quantum-physics-principles-structures-and-applications-foundations-through-quantum-information-optics-thermodynamics-and-applications-9798188070663","title":"Quantum Physics: Principles, Structures and Applications Foundations through Quantum Information, Optics, Thermodynamics and Applications","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Richard Murdoch Montgomery\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Physics - Quantum Theory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA book on quantum physics owes its reader, before anything else, an account of what it is and what it is not.\u003cbr\u003eIt is not an encyclopaedia: encyclopaedias flatter completeness and punish understanding. Nor is it a\u003cbr\u003ecompendium of recipes for examination day, a genre whose usefulness is real, brief, and fatal to curiosity. It\u003cbr\u003eis, rather, an argument - a single, extended argument that begins with a stove that glowed the wrong colour\u003cbr\u003eand ends, twenty-seven chapters later, with machines that compute upon superpositions and clocks that lose\u003cbr\u003ea second in the lifetime of the universe.\u003cbr\u003eThe book is complete in a single volume. It carries the subject from its experimental origins to the\u003cbr\u003efrontiers of quantum information, optics, thermodynamics and technology, across six Parts and twentyseven\u003cbr\u003echapters. Part I lays the mathematical and physical foundations; Part II erects non-relativistic\u003cbr\u003equantum mechanics upon them; Part III treats approximation methods and scattering; Part IV extends the\u003cbr\u003etheory to symmetry, path integrals and relativity; Part V develops quantum statistical mechanics and manybody\u003cbr\u003ephysics; and Part VI carries the whole into quantum information, computation, optics, open systems, \u003cbr\u003ethermodynamics, and the applications of the quantum in nature and technology. A set of reference\u003cbr\u003eappendices closes the book.\u003cbr\u003eThe method throughout is dialectical, in the plain sense of that abused word. Each concept is introduced as a\u003cbr\u003ethesis, confronted with the difficulty or the experiment that refuses it - the antithesis - and resolved into a\u003cbr\u003estructure that preserves what was right in both. This is not a stylistic ornament; it is how the subject actually\u003cbr\u003edeveloped, and, more importantly, it is how the subject is actually understood. Nobody ever believed\u003cbr\u003equantum mechanics because it was announced. One believes it because every alternative has been given a fair\u003cbr\u003etrial and has perished honourably in court.\u003cbr\u003eTwo promises govern the mathematics. First, nothing falls from the sky: every equation is derived from\u003cbr\u003estated premises, and where a derivation is deferred to a later chapter, the deferral is confessed in writing.\u003cbr\u003eSecond, no algebraic step is skipped on the grounds that the reader could supply it. The reader could; the\u003cbr\u003ereader should not have to. Worked examples are solved completely, including the exact keystroke sequences\u003cbr\u003efor the TI-84 Plus CE calculator; exercises with full solutions close every chapter.\u003cbr\u003eA request. A book of this length, prepared by a single hand, will contain errors despite every care taken\u003cbr\u003eagainst them. I would be very glad to receive the report of any mistake, ambiguity or obscurity the reader\u003cbr\u003eencounters - typographical, mathematical or conceptual. Every such correction will be acknowledged and\u003cbr\u003efolded into subsequent printings. Whatever errors remain are my own, exclusively, and no reader who\u003cbr\u003etroubles to point one out will find the courtesy unwelcome. Corrections may be sent to me directly at\u003cbr\u003erichard@scottishsciencesociety.org.\u003cbr\u003eR. M. M. Edinburgh and S�o Paulo, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48216015995031,"sku":"9798188070663","price":2964.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798188070663.webp?v=1788735376","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/quantum-physics-principles-structures-and-applications-foundations-through-quantum-information-optics-thermodynamics-and-applications-9798188070663","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}