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An Introduction to Quantum Mechanics - From Facts to Formalism (Hardcover)
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An Introduction to Quantum Mechanics - From Facts to Formalism (Hardcover)
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The core content of even the most intricate intellectual edifices
is often a simple fact or idea. So is it with quantum mechanics;
the entire mathematical fabric of the formal description of quantum
mechanics stems essentially from the fact that quantum
probabilities interfere (i.e., from the superposition principle).
This book is dedicated to substantiating this claim. In the
process, the book tries to demonstrate how the factual content of
quantum mechanics can be transcribed in the formal language of
vector spaces and linear transformations by disentangling the
empirical content from the usual formal description. More
importantly, it tries to bring out what this transcription
achieves. The book uses a pedagogic strategy which reverse
engineers the postulates of quantum mechanics to device a schematic
outline of the empirical content of quantum mechanics from which
the postulates are then reconstructed step by step. This strategy
is adopted to avoid the disconcerting details of actual experiments
(however simplified) to spare the beginner of issues that lurk in
the fragile foundations of the subject. In the Copenhagen
interpretation of quantum mechanics, the key idea is measurement.
But "measurement" carries an entirely different meaning from the
connotation that the term carries elsewhere in physics. This book
strives to underline this as strongly as possible. The book is
intended as an undergraduate text for a first course in quantum
mechanics. Since the book is self contained, it may also be used by
enthusiastic outsiders interested to get a glimpse of the core
content of the subject. Features: Demonstrates why linear algebra
is the appropriate mathematical language for quantum mechanics.
Uses a reconstructive approach to motivate the postulates of
quantum mechanics. Builds the vocabulary of quantum mechanics by
showing how the entire body of its conceptual ingredients can be
constructed from the single notion of quantum measurement.
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