This note covers the following topics:
The Early History of Quantum Mechanics, The Wave Function, The Two Slit
Experiment, Wave Mechanics, Particle Spin and the Stern-Gerlach Experiment,
Probability Amplitudes, Vector Spaces in Quantum Mechanics, General Mathematical
Description of a Quantum System, State Spaces of Infinite Dimension, Operations
on States, Matrix Representations of State Vectors and Operators, Probability,
Expectation Value and Uncertainty, Time Evolution in Quantum Mechanics.
The contents of
this pdf note include:Quantum light and the two level system, decaying
two level system, Cavity quantum electrodynamics, Fundamentals of laser theory ,
Cooling of atoms, Cavity optomechanics, Cooling of trapped ions, Collective
effects : super/subradiance, Interaction of light with molecules.
Quantum physics is a
catch-all term for the ideas, devices and technologies made possible by the
development of quantum mechanics in the early part of the 20th century. This
note concentrates on the ideas behind quantum mechanics itself, but the broader
field of quantum physics encompasses everything from the science of electronic
devices and lasers to the philosophical mysteries of quantum measurement
theory.
This note covers the following topics:
The Early History of Quantum Mechanics, The Wave Function, The Two Slit
Experiment, Wave Mechanics, Particle Spin and the Stern-Gerlach Experiment,
Probability Amplitudes, Vector Spaces in Quantum Mechanics, General Mathematical
Description of a Quantum System, State Spaces of Infinite Dimension, Operations
on States, Matrix Representations of State Vectors and Operators, Probability,
Expectation Value and Uncertainty, Time Evolution in Quantum Mechanics.
This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and
motion. It covers the following topics: Minimum action: quantum theory for
poets, Light: the strange consequences of the quantum of action, Motion of
matter: beyond classical physics, The quantum description of matter and its
motion, Permutation of particles, Rotations and statistics: visualising spin,
Superpositions and probabilities, quantum theory without ideology, Colours and
other interactions between light and matter and Quantum physics in a
nutshell.