21. What Is Quantum Mechanics? Any other situation in quantum mechanics, it turns out, can always be explained by saying, You remember the case of the experiment with the two holes? http://www.thekeyboard.org.uk/Quantum mechanics.htm

What is quantum mechanics? " The quantum is the greatest mystery we've got. Never in my life was I more up a tree than today," John Wheeler. Quantum theory is bizarre. In order to try and understand it we need to forget everything we know about cause and effect, reality, certainty, and much else besides. This is a different world, it has its own rules, rules of probability that make no sense in our everyday world. Richard Feynman, the greatest physicist of his generation, said of quantum theory It is impossible, absolutely impossible to explain it in any classical way'. Quantum theory is much more than just bizarre, it is also without doubt the most amazing theory in existence. If after reading this section you are not totally amazed by it, then the fault will be mine, for I will have failed to reveal to you its deep underlying significance. This theory is not just about experiments and equations, it reveals something extraordinary about our very understanding of what constitutes reality. We will start with the famous double slit experiment as it demonstrates beautifully the central mystery of quantum theory. Quantum theory however, needs some introduction before we get too involved in the experiment.

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Next: Contents Contents A Brief Review of Elementary Quantum Chemistry C. David Sherrill School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Georgia Institute of Technology Last Revised on 27 January 2001 Contents The Motivation for Quantum Mechanics The Ultraviolet Catastrophe The Photoelectric Effect ... About this document ... David Sherrill 2006-08-15

24. Why Quantum Mechanics Is Not So Weird After All (Skeptical Inquirer July/August The birth of quantum mechanics can be dated to 1925, when physicists such as Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger invented mathematical procedures that http://csicop.org/si/2006-04/quantum-mechanics.html

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Telex External Link Internal Link Inventory Cache Quantum Mechanics This nOde last updated June 25th, 2005 and is permanently morphing... (11 K'an (Corn) / 2 Tzec - 24/260 - 12.19.12.7.4) quantum mechanics quantum mechanics or quantum theory, branch of mathematical physics that deals with the emission and absorption of energy by matter and with the motion of material particles. Because it holds that energy and matter exist in tiny, discrete amounts, quantum mechanics is particularly applicable to ELEMENTARY PARTICLES and the interactions between them. According to the older theories of classical physics, energy is treated solely as a continuous phenomenon (i.e., WAVES by Max PLANCK , who proposed that the energies of any harmonic oscillator , such as the atoms of a blackbody radiator, are restricted to certain values, each of which is an integral (whole number) multiple of a basic minimum value. In 1905 Albert EINSTEIN proposed that the radiation itself is also quantized, and he used the new theory to explain the PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT. Niels BOHR used the quantum theory in 1913 to explain both atomic structure and atomic spectra, showing the connection between the energy levels of an atom's electrons and the frequencies of light matrix uncertainty principle , enunciated by Heisenberg in 1927, which places an absolute theoretical limit on the accuracy of certain measurements; as a result, the assumption by earlier scientists that the physical state of a system could be measured exactly and used to predict future states had to be abandoned. Other developments of the theory include quantum statistics, presented in one form by Einstein and S.N. Bose (Bose-Einstein statistics, which apply to BOSONS) and in another by Dirac and Enrico FERMI (Fermi-Dirac statistics, which apply to FERMIONS); quantum electronics, which deals with interactions involving quantum energy levels and

30. Quantum Mechanics, 1925-1927: The Quantum Mechanic By 1924 physicists in Göttingen and Copenhagen were agreed that the old quantum theory had to be replaced by some new quantum mechanics. http://www.aip.org/history/heisenberg/p07.htm

Heisenberg, wearing a tuxedo for the wedding of one of his youth movement comrades in the late 1920s. T he leading theory of the atom when Heisenberg entered the University of Munich in 1920 was the quantum theory of Bohr, Sommerfeld, and their co-workers. Although the theory had been highly successful in certain situations, during the early 1920s three areas of research indicated that this theory was inadequate and would need to be replaced. These areas included the study of light emitted and absorbed by atoms (spectroscopy); the predicted properties of atoms and molecules; and the nature of light itselfdid it act like waves or like a stream of particles? D uring his work in Munich, All of my meagre efforts go toward killing off and suitably replacing the concept of the orbital path which one cannot observe. Heisenberg, letter to Pauli, 1925 Heisenberg's paper on quantum mechanics. Click here to enlarge. H eisenberg set himself the task well documented by historians. Since the electron orbits in atoms could not be observed, Heisenberg tried to develop a quantum mechanics without them. He relied instead on what can be observed, namely the light emitted and absorbed by the atoms. By July 1925 Heisenberg had an answer, but the mathematics was so unfamiliar that he was not sure if it made any sense. Heisenberg handed a paper on the derivation to his mentor, Max Born, before leaving on a month-long lecture trip to Holland and England and a camping trip to Scandinavia with his youth-movement group. After puzzling over the derivation, Born finally recognized that the unfamiliar mathematics was related to the mathematics of arrays of numbers known as "matrices." Born sent Heisenberg's paper off for publication. It was the

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Index The new theories, if one looks apart from their mathematical setting, are built up from physical concepts which cannot be explained in terms of things previously known to the student, which cannot even be explained adequately in words at all. Like the fundamental concepts (e.g., proximity, identity) which every one must learn on his arrival into the world, the newer concepts of physics can be mastered only by long familiarity with their properties and uses. P.A.M. Dirac (1930) Preface The Principles of Quantum Mechanics We have always had a great deal of difficulty understanding the world view that quantum mechanics represents. At least I do, because I'm an old enough man that I haven't got to the point that this stuff is obvious to me. Okay, I still get nervous with it... You know how it is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no real problem... I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem. R. P. Feynman as quoted in

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Schedule Duality, Spacetime and Quantum Mechanics Edward Witten, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) In the last few years, physicists have learned that the different string theories discovered and studied in different ways are limiting cases of a single, more powerful theory, known as M theory. "M" stands for magic, mystery, or matrix, according to taste. Some of these developments will be explained in this lecture. Edward Witten, professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., is arguably the premier theoretical physicist of our time. Renowned for his many contributions to particle physics and string theory, Witten has almost single-handedly constructed a new branch of mathematical physics For his achievements, he has been awarded mathematics' highest prize, the 1990 Fields Medal. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he is a recipient of a MacArthur Prize, the Dirac Medal, and many other honors. Audio for this talk requires sound hardware, and RealPlayer or RealAudio by RealNetworks.

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Visual Quantum Mechanics Prepared for Contemporary Physics by Dean Zollman, Wally Axmann, Bob Grabhorn, Carol Regehr, and Paul Donovan Spring, 1994 From Kansas State University: http://bluegiant.phys.ksu.edu/dvi/vqm/vqm.html TABLE OF CONTENTS Wavelength-Momentum Relation Wave Functions Probability Basics Potential and Kinetic Energy Diagrams Large Objects ... Glossary From Kansas State University This verson rearranged somewhat (to include images inline) by Maureen O'Halloran, ohalloran@mail.nhn.ou.edu . Any added mistakes are mine.

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Quantum Mechanics in Chemistry by Jack Simons and Jeff Nichols (To read the links accessing chapters and appendices in this book, you will need to have a PDFReader "plugin" installed in your browser) Words to the reader about how to use this textbook I. What This Book Does and Does Not Contain This is a text dealing with the basics of quantum mechanics and electronic structure theory. It provides an introduction to molecular spectroscopy (although most classes on this subject will require additional material) and to the subject of molecular dynamics (whose classes again will require additional material). II. How to Use This Book Other sources of information may be needed to build background in the areas of mathematics and physics. These additional subjects are treated briefly in the associated Appendices whose readings are recommended at selected places within the text in the following format: Appendix A III. QMIC Computer Programs Included with this text are a set of Quantum Mechanics in Chemistry (QMIC) computer programs. They appear on the floppy disk on the inside of the back cover. To learn more about what they contain and how to use them, read the (Microsoft Word) "README" and "writeme" files on this disk. Table of Contents Section 1 The Basic Tools of Quantum Mechanics Chapter 1 Quantum mechanics describes matter in terms of wavefunctions and energy levels. physical measurements are described in terms of operators acting on wavefunctions

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Note that definitions of many of the acronyms used in this document can be found in the Quantum Chemistry Acronyms Database (Northern Illinois Univ.). Quantum Chemistry Quantum theory is based on Schrodinger's equation: in which electrons are considered as wave-like particles whose "waviness" is mathematically represented by a set of wavefunctions obtained by solving Schrodinger's equation. Schrodinger's equation addresses the following questions: Where are the electrons and nuclei of a molecule in space? configuration, conformation, size, shape, etc. Under a given set of conditions, what are their energies? heat of formation, conformational stability, chemical reactivity, spectral properties, etc. Schrodinger's equation for molecular systems can only be solved approximately. The approximation methods can be categorized as either ab initio or semiempirical . Semiempirical methods use parameters that compensate for neglecting some of the time consuming mathematical terms in Schrodinger's equation, whereas ab initio methods include all such terms. The parameters used by semiempirical methods can be derived from experimental measurements or by performing

39. [quant-ph/0510032] Kindergarten Quantum Mechanics It concerns `doing quantum mechanics using only pictures of lines, squares, triangles and diamonds . This picture calculus can be seen as a very substantial http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0510032

arXiv.org quant-ph Search or Article-id Help Advanced search All papers Titles Authors Abstracts Full text Help pages Full-text links: Download: PostScript PDF Other formats Citations SLAC-SPIRES HEP (refers to , cited by , arXiv reformatted) CiteBase 4 trackbacks p revious ... ext Quantum Physics Title: Kindergarten Quantum Mechanics Authors: Bob Coecke (Submitted on 4 Oct 2005) Abstract: These lecture notes survey some joint work with Samson Abramsky as it was presented by me at several conferences in the summer of 2005. It concerns `doing quantum mechanics using only pictures of lines, squares, triangles and diamonds'. This picture calculus can be seen as a very substantial extension of Dirac's notation, and has a purely algebraic counterpart in terms of so-called Strongly Compact Closed Categories (introduced by Abramsky and I in quant-ph/0402130 and [4]) which subsumes my Logic of Entanglement quant-ph/0402014 . For a survey on the `what', the `why' and the `hows' I refer to a previous set of lecture notes quant-ph/0506132 . In a last section we provide some pointers to the body of technical literature on the subject. Comments: Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph) ; Category Theory (math.CT)

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Quantum mechanics From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search Quantum mechanics is a first quantized quantum theory that supersedes classical mechanics at the atomic and subatomic levels. It is a fundamental branch of physics that provides the underlying mathematical framework for many fields of physics and chemistry Quantum mechanics is sometimes used in a more general sense, to mean quantum physics edit Sourced For those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it. Niels Bohr , quoted in Heisenberg, Werner (1971). Physics and Beyond , 206, New York: Harper and Row. edit Unsourced I do not like it, and I am sorry I ever had anything to do with it. Erwin Schr¶dinger God does not play dice with the cosmos. Albert Einstein (several variants exist) Do not presume to tell God what to do. Niels Bohr In response to Albert Einstein's quote. I think it is safe to say that no one understands quantum mechanics. Richard Feynman It's always fun to learn something new about quantum mechanics. Benjamin Schumacher If that turns out to be true, I'll quit physics.

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