Quantum Mechanics and Nonlinear Waves: Physics Series Vol 1

Abstract

Philip Barnes Burt 1981 New York: Harwood Academic ix + 331 pp price $75 The traditional introduction to quantum mechanics treats only the linear Schrodinger equation, and it comes as a nasty shock to students who continue their studies into quantum field theory to find the singularities that await them there and the contortions that have to be performed to remove them. This volume takes as its central theme the fact that the deficiencies of quantum field theory are generally due to inattention to the persistence of self-interactions which renders the theory nonlinear.