本书是剑桥大学出版社的一本较新的大学生量子力学教材，是Levin教授多年来在Brown大学为大学生和研究生讲授量子力学课程的教学经验之结晶。本书内容系统全面；论述方法简明清晰，并配有实例；每章后都附有大量的习题，书后有附录和参考文献，是一本非常好的教科书。本书内容分4部分，共18章。

本书读者对象为大学生、教师和研究生。

Preface

PART Ⅰ：INTRODUCTIORY

Chapter 1 The Need for a Non-Classical Description of Microscopic Phenomena

1.1 Photons

1.2 Quantization of Energy and Angular Momenturm

1.3 The Wave Nature of Matter

Exercises

Chapter 2 Classical Concepts and Quantal Inequivalences

2.1 Parties

2.2 Coordinate Systems:Positions:Velocities Momenta

2.3 Dynamical Equations,Generalized Coordinates and Conserved Quantities

2.4 Potentials and Limits of Motion

2.5 States of a System

2.6 Measuements and Uncertainty

Exercises

Chapter 3 Introducing Quantum Mechanics:A Comparison of the Classical Strtched Stiring and The Quantal Box

Chapter 4 Mathematical Background

PART Ⅱ The Postulates of Quantum Mechanics

Chapter 5 The Postulates of Quantum Mechanics

Chapter 6 Applications of the Postulates:Bound States in One Dimension

Chapter 7 Application of the Postulates:Continuum States in One Dimesion

Chapter 8 Quantal/Classical Connections

Chapter 9 Commutin Operators,Quantum Numbers Symmetry Properties

PART Ⅲ SYSTEMS WITH FEW DEGREES OF FREEDOM

Chapter 10 Orbital Angular Momentum

Chapter 11 Two-Particle Systems,Potential-Well Bound State Problems

Chapter 12 Electromanetic Feilds

Chapter 13 Intrinsic Spin,Two-State Systems

Chapter 14 Generalized Angular Momentum and the Coupling of Angular Momenta

Chapter 15 Three-Dimensional Continuum States/Scattering

PART Ⅳ COMPLEX SYSTEMS

Chapter 16 Time-Dependent Approximation Methods

Chapter 17 Time-Independent Approximation Methods

Chapter 18 Many Degrees of Freedom:Atoms and Molecules

Appendix A Elements of Probability Theory

Appendix B Fourier Series and Interias

Appendix C Solution of Legendre's Equation

Appendix D Fundamental and Derived Quantities:Conversion Factors

References

Index