文档介绍：Lectures on Quantum Mechanics
Jean-Louis Basdevant
Lectures on
Quantum Mechanics
Professor Jean-Louis Basdevant
Physics Department
École Polytechnique
91128 Palaiseau
France
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Cover illustration: Siné, Schrödinger’s cat.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2006936625
ISBN-10: 0-387-37742-5 e-ISBN-10: 0-387-37744-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-387-37742-1 e-ISBN-13: 978-0-387-37744-5
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To my son Nicolas
who shared this for years since he was a child,
and who taught me that people who can’t laugh
are not serious people
Contents
Preface ........................................................ xv
1 Praise of physics ........................................... 1
Theinterplayoftheeyeandthemind...................... 1
Advancedtechnologies................................... 5
The pillars of contemporary physics ........................ 6
Mysteriesoflight.................................. 6
Fundamental structure of matter .................... 8
The plex ................................... 9
TheUniverse ........................................... 12
2 A quantum phenomenon .....