Historical and Physical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

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: Schroedinger and the development of wave mechanics
8: Further developments of wave mechanics by Schroedinger
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 Schroedinger 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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