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| vivishek |
 Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:35 am |
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I am a student working on certain problems in quantum scattering and
am on the lookout for a good, comprehensive and up to date textbook on
the subject. Something that covers both classical and quantum
scattering in depth and offers insights into modern techniques like
inverse scattering etc. I shall be very thankful if somebody could
help me out in this regard. |
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| Igor Khavkine |
| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:36 am |
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On Apr 14, 5:35 pm, vivishek <vivishek.sud...@gmail.com> wrote:
Quote: I am a student working on certain problems in quantum scattering and
am on the lookout for a good, comprehensive and up to date textbook on
the subject. Something that covers both classical and quantum
scattering in depth and offers insights into modern techniques like
inverse scattering etc. I shall be very thankful if somebody could
help me out in this regard.
Two classic tomes. Perhaps not too up to date, but they may very well
have what you need anyway.
M. L. Goldberger & K. M. Watson, _Collision theory_ (1964)
R. G. Newton, _Scattering theory of waves and particles_ (1966)
Both should be in any good university library. The first one is
available in a Dover edition. I was under the impression that the
second one was as well, but now I can't find it anymore. Still,
Newton's book should not be hard to find through Amazon or Abebooks.
Hope this helps.
Igor |
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| Murray Arnow |
| Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:52 am |
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Igor Khavkine wrote:
Quote: vivishek wrote:
I am a student working on certain problems in quantum scattering and
am on the lookout for a good, comprehensive and up to date textbook on
the subject. Something that covers both classical and quantum
scattering in depth and offers insights into modern techniques like
inverse scattering etc. I shall be very thankful if somebody could
help me out in this regard.
Two classic tomes. Perhaps not too up to date, but they may very well
have what you need anyway.
M. L. Goldberger & K. M. Watson, _Collision theory_ (1964)
R. G. Newton, _Scattering theory of waves and particles_ (1966)
Both should be in any good university library. The first one is
available in a Dover edition. I was under the impression that the
second one was as well, but now I can't find it anymore. Still,
Newton's book should not be hard to find through Amazon or Abebooks.
Hope this helps.
1966 and 1964 aren't my definition of up-to-date. Had the OP not made that
requirement, I would have been more willing to supply some titles, as well
(Igor's choices are excellent). Aside from that, classical and quantum
scattering theory are well established and, to my knowledge, recent
changes few.
The OP didn't indicate his level of education; e.g., is this an
undergraduate or post-graduate problem, or what the "certain problems"
are. There is a myriad of books published with "Scattering Theory" or
"Collision Theory" in their titles, and since the subject is vast, most
books focus on more restricted areas; e.g., electron-atom, or atom-atom,
molecular, or high-energy particle, ... scattering. To Igor's list I think
some non-specialized books should be added: all editions of Schiff's
"Quantum Mechanics", which gives an excellent classical approach in the
earlier editions and a good introduction to the use of Green's function in
the latest edition; Panofsky and Philips "Classical and Magnetism," an
easy to digest treatment of electromagnetic scattering, but nearly all
books on electrodynamics cover scattering; finally, Landau and Lifshitz's
"Mechanics," which beautifully treats classical particle-scattering. |
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