Modern Quantum Mechanics

Modern Quantum Mechanics, often called Sakurai or Sakurai and Napolitano, is a standard graduate-level quantum mechanics textbook written originally by J. J. Sakurai and edited by San Fu Tuan in 1985, with later editions coauthored by Jim Napolitano. Sakurai died in 1982 before he could finish the textbook and both the first edition of the book, published in 1985 by Benjamin Cummings, and the revised edition of 1994, published by Addison-Wesley, were edited and completed by Tuan posthumously. The book was updated by Napolitano and released two later editions. The second edition was initially published by Addison-Wesley in 2010 and rereleased as an eBook by Cambridge University Press, which released a third edition in 2020.

Table of contents (3rd edition)

Prefaces
Chapter 1: Fundamental Concepts
Chapter 2: Quantum Dynamics
Chapter 3: Theory of Angular Momentum
Chapter 4: Symmetry in Quantum Mechanics
Chapter 5: Approximation Methods
Chapter 6: Scattering Theory
Chapter 7: Identical Particles
Chapter 8: Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
Appendix A: Electromagnetic Units
Appendix B: Elementary Solutions to Schrödinger's Wave Equation
Appendix C: Hamiltonian mechanics#Hamiltonian of a [charged particle in an electromagnetic field|Hamiltonian for a Charge in an Electromagnetic Field]
Appendix D: Proof of the Angular-Momentum Rule
Appendix E: Finding Clebsch-Gordan Coefficients
Appendix F: Notes on Complex Variables
Bibliography
Index

Reception

Early editions of the book have received several reviews. It is a standard textbook on the subject and is recommended in other works on the subject, it has inspired other textbooks on the subject, and it is used as a point of comparison in book reviews. Along with Griffith's Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, the book was also analyzed in a review of the "Philosophical Standpoints of Textbooks in Quantum Mechanics" in June 2020.

Modern Quantum Mechanics

Table of contents (3rd edition)

Reception

Publication history