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9780198822189

The Historical and Physical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

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  • ISBN13:

    9780198822189

  • ISBN10:

    0198822189

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2023-05-28
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Robert Golub, Professor of Physics, North Carolina State University,Steve Lamoreaux, Professor of Physics, Yale University

Robert Golub is a Professor of Physics at North Carolina State University.


Steve Lamoreaux is a Professor of Physics at Yale University.

Table of Contents


PART I - BASIS OF THE THEORY
1. Introduction
2. Properties of the quantum world: indeterminacy, interference, superposition, entanglement
3. The origin of quantum theory in the crisis of classical physics
4. Further steps to quantum mechanics: the old quantum mechanics of Bohr and Sommerfeld
5. Further steps to quantum mechanics: Louis de Broglie and the world's most important PhD thesis
6. The invention of quantum mechanics - matrix mechanics
7. Schrödinger and the development of wave mechanics
8. Further developments of wave mechanics by Schrödinger
9. Quantum statistics and the origin of wave mechanics
10. Early attempts at interpretation of the theory
11. The final synthesis of quantum mechanics: the 'transformation theory' and Dirac notation
12. Dirac and Jordan commit 'sin squared': Second quantization and the beginning of quantum field theory
13. The 'completion of quantum mechanics' - the fifth Solvay Conference on Physics, October 1927
14. von Neumann’s mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics: Redux
15. Einstein and Schrödinger renew the assault on quantum mechanics
16. Weimar culture and quantum mechanics
17. Further development of the interpretation of quantum theory
PART II - APPLICATIONS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS
18. Operator techniques and the algebraic solutions of problems
19. Spin-1/2 and two-level systems
20. Path integrals and scattering
21. Introduction to quantum computing (with the assistance of Edward D. Davis)

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