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Back-of-the-envelope quantum mechanics : with extensions to many-body systems and integrable PDEs /

Dimensional and order-of-magnitude estimates are practiced by almost everybody but taught almost nowhere. When physics students engage in their first theoretical research project, they soon learn that exactly solvable problems belong only to textbooks, that numerical models are long and resource con...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Olshanii, M. (Maxim) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific Pub. Co., [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 1. Ground state energy of a hybrid harmonic-quartic oscillator: a case study. 1.1. Solved problems -- 2. Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization. 2.1. Solved problems. 2.2. Problems without provided solutions. 2.3. Background. 2.4. Problems linked to the "background" -- 3. "Halved" harmonic oscillator: a case study. 3.1. Solved problems -- 4. Semi-classical matrix elements of observables and perturbation theory. 4.1. Solved problems. 4.2. Problems without provided solutions. 4.3. Background -- 5. Variational problems. 5.1. Solved problems. 5.2. Problems without provided solutions. 5.3. Background. 5.4. Problems linked to the "background" -- 6. Gravitational well: a case study. 6.1. Solved problems -- 7. Miscellaneous. 7.1. Solved problems -- 8. The Hellmann-Feynman theorem. 8.1. Solved problems. 8.2. Problems without provided solutions. 8.3. Background -- 9. Local density approximation theories. 9.1. Solved problems. 9.2. Problems without provided solutions -- 10. Integrable partial differential equations. 10.1. Solved problems. 10.2. Problems without provided solutions. 
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