• Quantum Physics, 3rd Edition by Stephen Gasiorowicz, a 2003 book published by John Wiley (ISBN 0-471-05700-2). This new edition has an associated web page, which contains extra information and more detailed derivations of particular topics. The previous 1996 2nd edition (ISBN 0-471-85737-8) is still useful, and there may be some second-hand copies available. A picture of the said author, and a list of corrections for the 2nd edition, with of course suitable disclaimers, can be found here. We are beginning to assemble a list of errors in the 3rd edition here; you win some, you lose some.

• Introductory Quantum Mechanics, 3rd Edition by Richard L. Liboff, a 1998 book published by Addison-Wesley (ISBN 0-201-87879). The 4th edition (2003, ISBN 0-8053-8714-5) has removed some errors and added the topic of quantum computation.
• Students with an EEE background should consider Anthony Levi's book, or Liboff's new edition described above. Applied Quantum Mechanics by A.J.F. Levi, a 2003 book published by Cambridge (ISBN 0-521-52086X, paperback), which also contains a CD of MatLab programs.
• Quantum Mechanics Simulations (ISBN 0-471-54884-7), which I use for demonstrations and optional problems. We have had some problems this last few years, since the disc supplied with the book will not run on PC's with speeds in excess of 233MHz without a patch. I can send you a zipped file to run on your machine, but we are still having problems with printing.
• Students with a chemistry background may wish to have access to Molecular Quantum Mechanics, 3rd Edition by P.W. Atkins and R.S. Friedman, a 1997 book published by Oxford in both hardback (ISBN 0-19-855948) and paperback (ISBN 0-19-855947X) editions; the 4th edition is available in 2003, but is not required.

The first topic where we went beyond the above books was Atomic Spectroscopy

• Most modern spectroscopy books typically don't give much feel for how the data was originally obtained, or indeed, for what a spectrum looks like. For this, we used the classic book Atomic spectra and atomic structure by G. Herzberg. This book was originally published in Germany in 1936, but the translation we used came out in 1937 and in a Dover paperback in 1944. Herzberg is renowned in Canada as the founder of the strong 'school' of Spectroscopy he set up, first in Saskatchewan and then in Toronto.
• We also used Einführung in die Spektroscopie der Atomhülle by P.H. Heckmann and E. Träbert, a 1980 book published by Vieweg (ISBN 3-528-035383-8). Apart from convincing ourselves that science, and the lot of graduate students trying to follow this stuff, is the same world-wide, this book provides several tables containing accurate values of term energies for particular types of atomic and ionic spectra. Actually, this book was translated into English in 1989, as Introduction to the Spectroscopy of Atoms and the library has a copy (North-Holland, ISBN 0-444-87325-2).
• We can note that the data described by Herzberg was all obtained before the laser was invented in the '60's, whereas the more accurate data we used from Heckmann and Träbert was almost all obtained with laser-based techniques.

The next topic was The Variational Principle

• The variational principle was illustrated by Helium, by Nuclear matter, and by Density Functional Theory (DFT). These three examples are best served by different books and web pages. An additional book, giving details of the application to helium, and helium-like atoms is Quantum Mechanics by R.W. Robinett, a 1997 book published by Oxford (ISBN 0-19-509202-3).
• Nuclear matter is discussed at the relevant level in Nuclear and Particle Physics by W.S.C. Williams, a 1990 book, updated in 2001, published by Oxford University Press (ISBN 0-19-852046-0). The relevant sections from chapters 4 and 8 are available as handouts. More details are included in PHY 462/561/562, courses which use this book as a main text.
• Density Functional Theory (DFT), as applied to clusters and solids, is discussed in outline in this course, and in more detail in other courses. These include PHY 581 at ASU, and my Sussex QMMS course, that also has its own booklist and references. The handouts and references used here are from that course, and in particular from my own book Introduction to Surfaces and Thin Films, published in 2000 by Cambridge University Press (ISBN 0-521-78500-6), with contents and updates on this website.