Solid State and Quantum Theory for Optoelectronics Hardback Michael Parker

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Product Overview

• Author: Michael Parker
• Book Title: Solid State and Quantum Theory for Optoelectronics
• Language: English

• Pages clean and unmarked.
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While applications rapidly change one to the next in our commercialized world,
fundamental principles behind those applications remain constant. So if one
understands those principles well enough and has ample experience in applying
them, he or she will be able to develop a capacity for reaching results via
conceptual thinking rather than having to always rely on models to test
various conditions. In Solid State and Quantum Theory for Optoelectronics,
Michael Parker provides a general conceptual framework for matter that leads
to the matter-light interaction explored in the author’s Physics of
Optoelectronics (CRC Press). Instead of overburdening readers with the
definition–theorem– proof format often expected in mathematics texts, this
book instructs readers through the development of conceptual pictures.
Employing a proven pedagogic approach, as rigorous as it is intuitive,
Professor Parker –Provides several lead-ins to the quantum theory including a
brief review of Lagrange and Hamilton’s approach to classical mechanics and
the fundamental quantum link with Hilbert spaceDemonstrates the Schrödinger
wave equation from the Feynman path integral Discusses standard topics such as
the quantum well, harmonic oscillator, representations, perturbation theory,
and spin Expands discussion from the density operator and its applications to
quantum computing and teleportationProvides the concepts for ensembles and
microstates in detail with emphasis on the derivation of particle population
distributions across energy levelsProfessors Parker includes problems to help
readers understand and internalize the material. But just as important, the
working-through of these problems will help readers develop the sort of
approach that, instead of wholly relying on models, enables them to
extrapolate solutions guided by informed intuition developed over the course
of formal study and laboratory experiment. It is the kind of conceptual
thinking that will allow readers to move with deeper understanding from
optical applications to more theoretical topics in physics.