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Index







N.B. References followed by (e) refer to an exercise







A






Absorption






–collision with 951






–of a quantum, of a photon 1293, 1319, 1332






–of several photons 1335, 1339 (e)






Acceptor (electron) 1445






Acetylene (structure) 849






Accidental degeneracy: see degeneracy






Action 335, 1497






Adiabatic (turning on of a potential) 912, 931






Addition






–of angular momenta 997, 1027, 1087 (e), 1091 (e)






–of spherical harmonics 1043






Adjoint (operator) 117






Allowed bands 373, 378, 1156, 1432






Ammonia 455, 845






Amplitude






–probability 253, 258






–scattering 909, 934






Angular momentum






–classical 1486






–quantum theory 641






–commutation relations 644, 698, 702






–orbital 643, 644, 660






–intrinsic: see spin






–"standard" representations 652, 666






–relation to rotations 690






–conservation 643, 709, 999






–addition 997, 1027, 1087 (e), 1091 (e)






–coupling 999, 1072






–of a photon 1337






–of two identical particles 1449 (e)






Anharmonicity: see oscillator (anharmonic)






Annihilation (or destruction) operator 489, 498






Antibonding (molecular state) 1179






Anticrossing (of levels) 409, 468






Antiresonant term 1293






Antisymmetric state 1380, 1384






Antisymmetrizer 1380, 1384






Atom (s)






–see hydrogen, helium, hydrogen-like






–many electron 1410, 1418






–muonic 524, 811






–hadronic 812






Autler-Townes effect 1359 (e)






Autoionization 1345, 1419






Azimuthal (quantum number) 783







B






Bands (energy)






–allowed or forbidden 373, 378, 382, 1156, 1432






–valence, conduction 1444






Barrier (potential)






–square 36, 72, 365






–delta function 86 (e)






–arbitrary shape 359






Basis (state space)






–discrete 97, 121






–continuous 105, 121






–mixed 105, 138






–characteristic relations 107, 124, 146






Benzene 411, 480 (e)






Bessel






–Bessel-Parseval relation 1462






–spherical Bessel functions 924, 944, 945, 946






Black body 624






Bloch






–equations 451, 1324, 1326






–functions 1164






–theorem 632, 1165






Bohr






–frequency 249






–model 45, 791






–radius endpaper, 792






–see magneton






Boltzmann constant endpaper






Bond (chemical) 412, 841, 1169, 1191






Bonding state (molecular) 1178






Boundary conditions 352, 375






–see periodical






Born approximation 919, 957, 1302






Born-Oppenheimer approximation 512, 1156






Born-von Karman conditions 1441






Bose condensation 1399






Bose-Einstein






–statistics 1399






–distribution law 625






Bosons 1386






Bra 110, 125






Bragg reflection 374, 1168






Brillouin






–zones 589, 1163






–formula 440


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