Supersymmetry in Quantum Mechanics - F. Cooper, et al., (World, 2001) WW.pdf

Fred Cooper
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Avinash Khare
Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar
Uday Sukhatme
University of Illinois, Chicago
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Preface
During the past fifteen years, a new conceptual framework for un-
derstanding potential problems in quantum mechanics has been developed
using ideas borrowed from quantum field theory. The concept of supersym-
metry when applied to quantum mechanics has led to a new way of relating
Hamiltonians with similar spectra. These ideas are simple enough to be a
part of the physics curriculum.
The aim of this book is to provide an elementary description of super-
symmetric quantum mechanics plements the traditional cover-
age found in existing quantum mechanics textbooks. In this spirit we give
problems at the end of each chapter as well plet