Placing the development of quantum mechanics in its historical context, from its philosophical origins in Greece, to its scientific realisation in the 19th and 20th centuries, this textbook book culminates with an examination of the current state of the field and an introduction to quantum information and computing.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 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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