Lectures on Quantum Mechanics
Lectures on Quantum Mechanics
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10.1007/978-3-319-43479-7
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2007-03
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J. Basdevant
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J. Basdevant
This book is a revised and extended version of the introductory lectures on quantum mechanics that I delivered for many years at the Ecole Polytechnique. It is not a textbook, simply an account of my lectures. I have published two books in the same Springer collection with my colleague and friend Jean Dalibard. One is a textbook: Quantum Mechanics, J.-L. Basdevant and Jean Dalibard, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2002 (revised in 2005). The other one is a collection of problems and their solutions: The Quantum Mechanics Solver, J.-L. Basdevant and Jean Dalibard, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2000 (completely revised in 2019). All of these problems concern contemporary experimental or theoretical developments, some of which had appeared in the specialized literature a year or so before we gave them as written examinations. Needless to say that if this second book is somewhat unusual, there are many excellent textbooks on quantum mechanics, among which some masterpieces which I often consult and refer to.The remarks that eventually convinced me to write the present text are twofold. The texts I had written on the subject, both in French and in English, were terribly deprived of life, action, thoughts, and questioning which I always liked to put in the narrative account of the ideas and applications of the subject. The human aspect of the experimental investigations and of the ensuing discovery of basic principles made the lectures lively (besides the fact that the minds need to rest for few minutes after following a difficult argument). I feel that teaching science is incomplete if it does not incorporate the human dimension, be it of the lecturer, of the audience, and of the topic to which it is devoted. In addition, my first books were lacking any exercise or problem. Therefore, it has been one of my major goals to fill that void. The present book contains exercises and problems, placed when the tools to solve them have been treated, followed by their solutions and possible comments. Many of them refer to quite modern physics (there is no overlap with The Quantum Mechanics Solver). The solutions are given at the end of the book. I have modified the content of this book by one main addition: Chap. 8 on the photon. Quantum mechanics starts with the demonstration of the wave behavior of particles. However, the first quantum being that was found is the photon and the proof of its particle nature took a long time. This topic is not found often since a complete account of the physics of photons, zero mass particles, involves relativistic quantum field theory. However, the experimental proof of the particle nature of v