The Historical and Physical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

Cover
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
PART I BASIS OF THE THEORY
	Chapter 1 Introduction
	Chapter 2 Properties of the quantum world: indeterminacy, interference,superposition, entanglement
	Chapter 3 The origin of quantum theory in the crisis of classical physics
	Chapter 4 Further steps to quantum mechanics: the old quantum mechanicsof Bohr and Sommerfeld
	Chapter 5 Further steps to quantum mechanics: Louis de Broglie andthe world’s most important PhD thesis
	Chapter 6 The invention of quantum mechanics—matrix mechanics
	Chapter 7 Schrodinger and the development of wave mechanics
	Chapter 8 Further developments of wave mechanics by Schr¨odinger
	Chapter 9 Quantum statistics and the origin of wave mechanics
	Chapter 10 Early attempts at interpretation of the theory
	Chapter 11 The final synthesis of quantum mechanics: the “transformationtheory” and Dirac notation
	Chapter 12 Dirac and Jordan commit “sin squared”: second quantizationand the beginning of quantum field theory
	Chapter 13 The “completion of quantum mechanics”—the fifth SolvayConference on Physics, October 1927
	Chapter 14 Von Neumann’s mathematical foundations of quantummechanics: redux
	Chapter 15 Einstein and Schrodinger renew the assault on quantum mechanics
	Chapter 16 Weimar culture and quantum mechanics
	Chapter 17 Further development of the interpretation of quantum theory
PART II APPLICATIONS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS
	Chapter 18 Operator techniques and the algebraic solutions of problems
	Chapter 19 Spin-1/2 and two-level systems
	Chapter 20 Path integrals and scattering
	Chapter 21 Introduction to quantum computing (with the assistance ofEdward D. Davis)
APPENDICES
	A- Classical mechanics
	B- Galilean invariance of the Schrodinger equation
	C- Universality of Planck’s constant
	D- Conservation laws
	E- Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalism for classical fields
Index