The Historical and Physical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

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Product details:

• ISBN 10:0192555367
• ISBN 13:9780192555366
• Author: Robert Golub; Steve Lamoreaux

Table contents:

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 t

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

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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