Robert Golub, Steve Lamoreaux

The Historical and Physical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Following the path by which humanity learned quantum mechanics can lead to an improved teaching and understanding of the fundamental theory and the origins of its perceived limitations. The purpose of this textbook is to retrace the development of quantum mechanics by investigating primary sources (including original published papers and letters) with attention to their timing and influence. Placing the development of quantum mechanics in its historical context, from the nascent philosophical notions of matter, atoms, and void in Ancient Greece, to their scientific realization in the 19th and 20th centuries, the book culminates with an examination of the current state of the field and an introduction to quantum information and computing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 768
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192555366
• Artikelnr.: 67457029

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

* 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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