Quantum Mechanics of Charged Particle Beam Optics: Understanding Devices from Electron Microscopes to Particle Accelerators [Hardcover]

Classical Charged Particle Beam Optics used in the design and operation of all present-day charged particle beam devices, from low energy electron microscopes to high energy particle accelerators, is entirely based on classical mechanics. A question of curiosity is: How is classical charged particle beam optics so successful in practice though the particles of the beam, like electrons, are quantum mechanical? Quantum Mechanics of Charged Particle Beam Optics answers this question with a comprehensive formulation of Quantum Charged Particle Beam Optics applicable to any charged particle beam device.

Introduction.  An Introductory Review of Classical Mechanics.  An Introductory Review of Quantum Mechanics.  An Introduction to Classical Charged Particle Beam Optics. Quantum Charged Particle Beam Optics: Scalar Theory for Spin-0 and Spinless Particles.  Quantum Charged Particle Beam Optics: Spinor Theory for Spin- 1/2 Particles.  Concluding Remarks and Outlook on Further Development of Quantum Charged Particle Beam Optics

Theory of charged particle beam optics is basic to the design and working of charged particle beam devices from electron microscopes to accelerator machines.

Professor Ramaswamy Jagannathan retired in 2009 as a senior professor of physics from The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai, India. He is currently an adjunct professor of physics at the Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI), Chennai. He got his PhD (Theor. Phys.) from the University of Madras, Chennai, India, in 1976, working at IMSc. His PhD work on generalized Clifford algebras was done under the guidance of Professor Alladi Ramakrishnan, the founder director of IMSc known popularly as MATSCIENCE at that time. He has authored/coauthored about 80 research papers in various branches of Physical Mathematics, like Generalized Clifford Alƒ3