ABSTRACT

Probably the most successful scientific theory ever created, quantum theory has profoundly changed our view of the world and extended the limits of our knowledge, impacting both the theoretical interpretation of a tremendous range of phenomena and the practical development of a host of technological breakthroughs. Yet for all its success, quantum t

part |2 pages

Part I

chapter 1|24 pages

Our First Quantum Object: Light

chapter 2|24 pages

Particles

chapter 3|24 pages

Quantum States

chapter 4|12 pages

Amplitudes

chapter 5|16 pages

Measurement

chapter |10 pages

INTERLUDE 2 The Complex Plane

chapter 6|16 pages

Interference

chapter 7|12 pages

The Free Particle

chapter 8|18 pages

Identical Particles

chapter 9|18 pages

Scattering Identical Bosons

chapter |8 pages

INTERLUDE 3 Matrix Operators

chapter 10|16 pages

Spin

chapter 11|22 pages

Fermion States

chapter 12|20 pages

Wave Functions

chapter 13|14 pages

Uncertainty

chapter |4 pages

Interlude 4. Heisenberg's Equation

part |2 pages

Part II

chapter 14|4 pages

Genealogy

chapter 15|14 pages

Planck and Einstein

chapter 16|16 pages

Niels Bohr

chapter 17|12 pages

Werner Heisenberg

chapter 18|12 pages

Erwin Schrödinger

chapter 19|10 pages

Paul Dirac

chapter 20|4 pages

Conclusions

part |2 pages

Part III

chapter 21|26 pages

Applications of Quantum Theory

chapter 22|24 pages

Entanglement

chapter |12 pages

Interlude 5. Density Operator

chapter 23|12 pages

Interpretations

chapter 24|24 pages

The Copenhagen Interpretation

chapter 25|26 pages

The Many Worlds Interpretation

chapter 26|28 pages

Other Interpretations

chapter 27|34 pages

Quantum Field Theory

chapter |4 pages

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