Modern Quantum Mechanics
Modern Quantum Mechanics is a widely used graduate-level textbook on quantum mechanics. It is usually called Sakurai or Sakurai and Napolitano.
The book was originally written by J. J. Sakurai and edited by San Fu Tuan. Sakurai died in 1982 before he could finish it, so Tuan completed and published the first edition in 1985 and a revised edition in 1994. Jim Napolitano later updated the work, producing newer editions. The second edition appeared from Addison-Wesley in 2010, with Cambridge University Press releasing an eBook version and a third edition in 2020.
Modern Quantum Mechanics is regarded as a standard reference and is recommended in other quantum mechanics texts. It has inspired other textbooks and is often used as a point of comparison in book reviews. It was discussed alongside Griffith’s Introduction to Quantum Mechanics in a 2020 review that also explored different philosophical approaches to teaching the subject.
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