I had a look on your recommended favorite book by Auletta after downloading it on my iBooks , and it has a fine elegant simplification on quantum mechanics. And I don’t have anything but gratitude and thanking you for pointing to it. Blesses and Godspeed.
"Quantum Mechanics: Foundations and Applications" by Arno Bohm This is a graduate-level text (or advanced undergrad text), so don't start here; however, the writing style is very clear and crisp. The author approaches Quantum Theory as an algebraic structure built to explain measured phenomena, like Werner Heisenberg. It treats states as vectors and observables as operators on those vectors.
Some good textbook suggestions. I would add any of the introduction textbooks by Griffiths. I think they are great for what they are. I also really liked Sakurai as well for more advanced QM.
You know, I really liked Griffiths electrodynamics, and with how popular the QM book seems to be online I always assumed it would be used at some point in my courses but I never ran into it. In hindsight the electrodynamics one was splendidly written perhaps I'm missing out a great QM book :).
hey jon, a bit out of place to ask this one here, but i have this question that is bugging me. the 3rd law of thermodynamics says that in a perfect crystal the entropy is zero at zero kelvin. now knowing that imperfections exist, can we say that no matter how hard we try to cool a material some value of entropy will remain? is there a lower bound (something something kelvin) on temperature that we won't surpass even with further cooling?
Interesting question! So cooling to zero kelvin is equivalent to saying we cool the material to it's ground state, which indeed has zero entropy. This is an ongoing discussion it seems in the literature but I would point you here for starters: arxiv.org/abs/1911.06377. Basically what they are saying is that to cool a system to zero kelvin you would need an infinite number of operations. This is the case no matter how idealized you make your procedure :).
@@JonathonRiddell oh i don't know that this is not settled. what i imagined that if the material is not perfect (like having defects and impurities) it will get stuck at a higher energy state even if we try to cool it further, leaving us with "leftover temperature"
If you're studying the dirac notation I recommend giving "The structure and the interpretation of quantum mechanics" a look (and the books the author recomends, like Linear Operators for quantum mechanics), it'll give you a more rounded grasp of Hilbert spaces.
Focus more on mathematics. Physics is good for application but it hardly gives any insight into the ultimate reality of existence . studying the relations between two or more phenomena, which is the study field of physics, don't reveal the nature of things in themselves, while in mathematics the relation proper is what is sought after in order to have the nature of numbers revealed.
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I had a look on your recommended favorite book by Auletta after downloading it on my iBooks , and it has a fine elegant simplification on quantum mechanics.
And I don’t have anything but gratitude and thanking you for pointing to it.
Blesses and Godspeed.
"Quantum Mechanics: Foundations and Applications" by Arno Bohm
This is a graduate-level text (or advanced undergrad text), so don't start here; however, the writing style is very clear and crisp.
The author approaches Quantum Theory as an algebraic structure built to explain measured phenomena, like Werner Heisenberg. It treats states as vectors and observables as operators on those vectors.
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A really great guide for quantum information
Some good textbook suggestions. I would add any of the introduction textbooks by Griffiths. I think they are great for what they are. I also really liked Sakurai as well for more advanced QM.
You know, I really liked Griffiths electrodynamics, and with how popular the QM book seems to be online I always assumed it would be used at some point in my courses but I never ran into it. In hindsight the electrodynamics one was splendidly written perhaps I'm missing out a great QM book :).
@@JonathonRiddell Yeah I think they are all great at explainations. Which I think for introduction textbooks is perfect.
These are some solid textbooks. Thank you for the valuable video.
Great recommendations, but surprised to see no Griffiths here.
University of Nottingham? Does that mean we might see Jonathon Riddell in a 60 Symbols video in the future?
That'd be cool! I wouldn't turn it down lol.
hey jon, a bit out of place to ask this one here, but i have this question that is bugging me. the 3rd law of thermodynamics says that in a perfect crystal the entropy is zero at zero kelvin. now knowing that imperfections exist, can we say that no matter how hard we try to cool a material some value of entropy will remain?
is there a lower bound (something something kelvin) on temperature that we won't surpass even with further cooling?
Interesting question! So cooling to zero kelvin is equivalent to saying we cool the material to it's ground state, which indeed has zero entropy.
This is an ongoing discussion it seems in the literature but I would point you here for starters: arxiv.org/abs/1911.06377.
Basically what they are saying is that to cool a system to zero kelvin you would need an infinite number of operations. This is the case no matter how idealized you make your procedure :).
@@JonathonRiddell oh i don't know that this is not settled. what i imagined that if the material is not perfect (like having defects and impurities) it will get stuck at a higher energy state even if we try to cool it further, leaving us with "leftover temperature"
I think that the answer you expect here is the correct intuition, the leftover discussion seems to be optimizing the bounds for the temperature :)
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Ah it's bad again, I didn't notice. I will fix this for future videos.
Which mathematical physics books I should read with quantum mechanics course??
If you're studying the dirac notation I recommend giving "The structure and the interpretation of quantum mechanics" a look (and the books the author recomends, like Linear Operators for quantum mechanics), it'll give you a more rounded grasp of Hilbert spaces.
Which book should i read for the difference between statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics?
really good video ❤
Excellent books
Not NottingHAM (as in ham sandwich) but "NottingUM" (as pronounced in U.K.)😊
😂😂 well said sir
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Focus more on mathematics. Physics is good for application but it hardly gives any insight into the ultimate reality of existence . studying the relations between two or more phenomena, which is the study field of physics, don't reveal the nature of things in themselves, while in mathematics the relation proper is what is sought after in order to have the nature of numbers revealed.
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