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Momentum 213, 222, 317, 322






–generalized 1488






–see angular, mechanical






–conjugate 213, 225, 1488






Mossbauer effect 1365 (e)






Multipole moments 1059, 1090 (e)






Muon 524, 807, 811, 1266






Muonic atoms 524, 811, 1146






Muonium 807, 1262







N






Neumann spherical functions 947






Neutron mass endpaper






Non-linear






–response 1323






–susceptibility 1335






Non-resonant excitation 1315






Norm






–of a wave function 20, 96, 107






–of a state vector 111






–conservation 237






Normal variables 578, 591, 607, 614






Normal modes of vibration 575, 586, 605






Nuclear finite mass effect 807






Nucleus






–volume effect 526, 812, 1141, 1248






–finite mass effect 807






–spin 1070






–multipole moments 1070






Numbers (quantum)






–good 248






–see azimuthal, magnetic, principal, radial







O






Observables 136, 139, 215






–measurement 215, 225






–quantization 222






–whose commutator equals ih 187, 286






–for identical particles 1381, 1393






–C.S.C.O. (Complete Set of Commuting Observables) 143, 159, 206 (e), 235






Occupation number 1391






Operators






–definition 96, 114






–general properties 166






–eigenvalue equation, diagonalization 132, 158, 420






–representation 126






–Hermitian 120, 136






–unitary 176






–function of an operator 169






–restriction of an operator 168






–density 295, 437






–evolution 308






–parity 192






–translation 190, 556, 761






–rotation 693, 983






–scalar 705, 709






–vector 705, 1048, 1089 (e)






–tensor 1089 (e), 1090 (e)






–creation and annihilation 489, 498






–permutation 1378, 1382






Oppenheimer: see Born






Optical theorem 956






Orbital






–angular momentum 643, 644, 660






–state space 970






Orbitals






–atomic 841, 1447 (e)






–molecular 1180, 1185






–linear combination of atomic orbitals 1151, 1173






Orthonormal basis 97, 105, 107, 122, 138






Oscillation between two states 412, 448, 1340






Oscillator (anharmonic) 487, 1102






Oscillator (harmonic)






–one-dimensional 483, 511






–two-dimensional 727






–three-dimensional 547, 814, 870 (e)






–in an electric field 552






–in thermodynamic equilibrium 620






–coupled oscillators 575, 586






–quasi-classical states 559






Oscillator strength 1318






Overlap integral 1175







P






Packet: see wave packet






Paramagnetism 828, 870 (e), 1438






Parity






–operator 192






–of the multipole operators 1065, 1066






–of a permutation 1383






Parseval '






–Parseval-Plancherel relation 1465, 1475






–Parseval-Bessel relation 27, 1462






Part (principal) 1488






Partial waves (method of) 921, 929, 951, 960, 962 (e), 1450 (e)






Path (space-time) 333, 1497






Pauli






–matrices 417, 973






–theory 970






–Hamiltonian 991 (e)






–exclusion principle 1389, 1396, 1414, 1433, 1436, 1445






Penetrating orbit 1414






Periodic






–function 1459






–potential 367, 1159






–boundary conditions 1165, 1440






Permutation






–operators 1378, 1382






–transformation of observables by 1381, 1386






–parity of 1383






Perturbations






–stationary 1094






–time-dependent 1284






Phase






–condition of stationary 25, 58






–see: velocity






Phonons 586, 601






Photoelectric effect 1345, 1361 (e)






Photons 10, 605, 626, 1336






–see absorption


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