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Picture






–Schrödinger or Heisenberg 312






–interaction 347 (e)






Plancherel: see Parseval






Planck






–Planck-Einstein relations 11, 18






–constant 11, endpaper






Plane wave 22, 27, 100, 923, 947






Podolsky (Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox 294, 1084






Polarizability






–of NH3 (electrical) 468






–of a charged harmonic oscillator 555






–of a hydrogen atom 1280






Polarization of the Zeeman components 838, 1275






Polynomial method






–harmonic oscillator 535, 815






–hydrogen atom 794






Polynomials






–Hermite 502, 529, 541






–Legendre 686






Positron 1262






Positronium 808, 1262






Postulates






–general 214






–symmetrization 1386, 1406






Potential






–operator 171






–scalar or vector 224, 315, 1493






–central 776, 814, 921






–centrifuge 781, 859, 864






–with cylindrical symmetry 870 (e)






–periodic 367, 1159






–scattering by 901






–Yukawa 957






–of a magnetic dipole 1248






–see barrier, well, step, square






Precession (Larmor) 390, 404, 443, 830






Principal quantum number 799






Probability






–of a measurement result 17, 19, 216






–amplitude 19, 253, 258






–current and density 19, 238, 280, 327, 343 (e)






–of a transition 429, 447, 1289, 1296, 1300, 1319, 1363 (e)






Product






–scalar 95, 98, 106, 109, 147, 165






–of operators 97, 127






–tensor 153, 199, 292, 306, 430






Projection theorem 1236






Projector 114, 138, 168, 217, 221, 264, 1088 (e)






Propagator 329






Proton






–mass endpaper






–spin and angular momentum 1217, 1248






–hyperfine coupling 1249






Pumping 1324, 1330, 1339 (c)






Pure state 297







Q






Quadrupole (electric)






–Hamiltonian 1312






–transitions and selection rules 1314






–moment 1064, 1205 (e)






Quantization






–rules 222, 225






–of the energy 10, 18, 38, 77, 352






–of the measurement results 16, 215, 226, 392, 398






–of the angular momentum 387, 652






–of the electromagnetic field 613






Quasi-classical states 559, 738, 763, 771 (e)






Quenching (metastability) 1282







R






Rabi's formula 413, 428, 447, 1286, 1342






Radial






–equation 779






–quantum number 783






–integral 1258






Raman effect 516, 723, 1339 (e)






Rayleigh scattering 516, 726






Recoil energy 1365 (e)






Reduced mass 786






Reduction of the wave packet 220, 226, 265, 278






Reiche: see Thomas






Relaxation 452, 1324, 1362 (e), 1363 (e)






Relative motion 785






Relativistic corrections 1213, 1429






Representation






–generalities 121






–position and momentum representations 144, 182






Resonance






–'quantum 411, 1139, 1177






–magnetic 443, 1123, 1128, 1205 (e)






–scattering 73, 936, 963 (e)






–for a sinusoidal excitation 1292, 1331, 1336, 1340






–integral 1175






Response (linear, non-linear) 1315, 1323






Restriction of an operator 168, 1105






Ritz theorem 1149






Root mean square deviation






–general definition 230






–of two conjugate observables 286






Rosen (Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox) 294, 1084






Rotation(s) 690






–operator 693, 983






–invariance and essential degeneracy 714, 1056, 1421, 1429






–of molecules 712, 766 (e), 856






Rotator (rigid) 712, 1202 (e)






Rutherford's formula 960






Rydberg constant endpaper







S






Saturation 1335






Scalar






–product 95, 98, 106, 109, 147, 165






–operator 705, 709






Scattering






–by a potential 901






–by a central potential 921


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