Contemporary Quantum Mechanics in Practice

'The rapid development of quantum science and technology in the last quarter of a century has made it necessary to redesign introductory courses in quantum mechanics in order to incorporate new developments. This book by Woods and Lopez fills the urgent need for a modern problem book for such courses. Its selection of topics is well balanced, and the problems are designed to provide a stepping stone to issues of contemporary research.' Charis Anastopoulos, University of Patras
'An excellent complement to a modern quantum mechanics book. It exemplifies both the basics and several areas of important modern quantum mechanical research through solved exercises of relevance to condensed matter, atomic physics, quantum computation and foundations.' Horatiu Nastase, Sao Paulo State University
'There are many textbooks on quantum mechanics, but this book does not add another. Rather, it provides worked problems as opportunities to apply the concepts covered in lectures and textbooks. These problems address advanced and modern topics such as geometrical phases, the density operator, indistinguishable particles, and relativistic quantum mechanics. In my experience, it is crucial for students to not only understand the concepts, in the sense of having followed the arguments presented in the lecture or textbook, but also to develop an intuition for what the formalism actually means. This intuition is also essential for the ability to go beyond it, i.e., to make progress. Intuition comes from applying formalism to actual problems, and this book by Woods and Lopez provides plenty to opportunities to do that.' Carsten Timm, TU Dresden