《量子力学概论》(英文版)(原书第2版)的特点有：1、内容合适，包含了大学量子力学最主要的内容，直接从Schrodinger方程开始。叙述非常“物理”，强调实验基础和基本概念，改变了量子力学难于理解、难于接受的教学状况。2、内容现代，在科学研究中的关的部分，在物理学各个分支中常用的部分既有精辟的叙述，又有实际举例。而与原子物理、近代物理中相关的部分，由于在低年级已有讨论，基本上不再重复。3、习题分为容易、中等和较难三个层次，可供不同基础的学生选择，且配有大量的思考性习题。根据国内的教学实际，本影印版删去了原书的第12章（后记）和附录。

在线阅读本书 Beginning students of quantum mechanics frequently experience difficulties separating essential underlying principles from the specific examples to which these principles have been historically applied. Nobel–Prize–winner Claude Cohen–Tannoudji and his colleagues have written this book to eliminate precisely these difficulties. Fourteen chapters provide a clarity of organization, careful attention to pedagogical details, and a wealth of topics and examples which make this work a textbook as well as a timeless reference, allowing to tailor courses to meet students′ specific needs. Each chapter starts with a clear exposition of the problem which is then treated, and logically develops the physical and mathematical concept. These chapters emphasize the underlying principles of the material, undiluted by extensive references to applications and practical examples which are put into complementary sections. The book begins with a qualitative introduction to quantum mechanical ideas using simple optical analogies and continues with a systematic and thorough presentation of the mathematical tools and postulates of quantum mechanics as well as a discussion of their physical content. Applications follow, starting with the simplest ones like e.g. the harmonic oscillator, and becoming gradually more complicated (the hydrogen atom, approximation methods, etc.). The complementary sections each expand this basic knowledge, supplying a wide range of applications and related topics as well as detailed expositions of a large number of special problems and more advanced topics, integrated as an essential portion of the text.

《量子力学原理(第2版)》主要内容：Review: `An excellent text....The postulates of quantum mechanics and the mathematical underpinnings are discussed in a clear, succint manner.' - American Scientist, from a review of the First Edition Book Description Reviews from the First Edition:"An excellent text … The postulates of quantum mechanics and the mathematical underpinnings are discussed in a clear, succinct manner." (American Scientist) "No matter how gently one introduces students to the concept of Dirac's bras and kets, many are turned off. Shankar attacks the problem head-on in the first chapter, and in a very informal style suggests that there is nothing to be frightened of." (Physics Bulletin) "This massive text of 700 and odd pages has indeed an excellent get-up, is very verbal and expressive, and has extensively worked out calculational details——-all just right for a first course. The style is conversational, more like a corridor talk or lecture notes, though arranged as a text. … It would be particularly useful to beginning students and those in allied areas like quantum chemistry." (Mathematical Reviews) R. Shankar has introduced major additions and updated key presentations in this second edition of Principles of Quantum Mechanics. New features of this innovative text include an entirely rewritten mathematical introduction, a discussion of Time-reversal invariance, and extensive coverage of a variety of path integrals and their applications. Additional highlights include: - Clear, accessible treatment of underlying mathematics - A review of Newtonian, Lagrangian, and Hamiltonian mechanics - Student understanding of quantum theory is enhanced by separate treatment of mathematical theorems and physical postulates - Unsurpassed coverage of path integrals and their relevance in contemporary physics The requisite text for advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level students, Principles of Quantum Mechanics, Second Edition is fully referenced and is supported by many exercises and solutions. The book's self-contained chapters also make it suitable for independent study as well as for courses in applied disciplines.

本书是作者多年在北京大学物理系教学与科研工作的总结，8年代初出版以来，深受读者欢迎，多次再版重印。为适应改革开放以后我国高校量子力学教学的新情况，本书第二版(199)做了大幅度修订与增补，分两卷出版，卷Ⅰ可作为本科生教材或主要参考书，卷Ⅱ则作为研究生的教学参考书，鉴于最近2年来量子力学(实验与理论)有了很多新的进展，在第三版中将尽量把这些主要的新进展系统介绍给读者，所以第三版(特别是卷Ⅱ)的内容，

本书作者Sakurai是一位杰出的理论物理学家和粒子物理学家。本书对于量力学概念的介绍与传统的做法不同，没有受制于量子力学发展的历史线索，力求从一开始就摆脱经典力学的束缚。它直接从量子力学特有的电子自旋的观测实验出发，围绕其状态的概率特征和叠加原理展开对于量子力学基本概念和基本原理的阐述。从空间平移、空间转动及时间演化等对称性变换出发，引入动量、角动量及哈密顿算符等基本力学量，讨论它们的本征值问题，它们的运动方程及与经典力学的关系，从而直接切入量子力学的核心问题。这种被称之为“用量子力学方式来思考”的做法贯穿全书，是本书最引入瞩目之处。 国内已经出版了不少高等量子力学的教材，但与之直接对应的国外教材却并不多见。本书从其设定的读者对象、它的选材范围以及其深度与广度来看，都非常适合这方面的要求。如果从双语教学角度来考虑，它无疑也是理想教材的候选者。