Quantum Behavior
Atomic mechanics
An experiment with bullets
An experiment with waves
An experiment with electrons
The interference of electron waves
Watching the electrons
First principles of quantum mechanics
The uncertainty principle
The Relation of Wave and Particle Viewpoints
Probability wave amplitudes
Measurement of position and momentum
Crystal diffraction
The size of an atom
Energy levels
Philosophical implications
Probability Amplitudes
The laws of combining amplitudes
The two-slit interference pattern
Scattering from a crystal
Identical particles
Identical Particles
Bose particles and Fermi particles
States with two Bose particles
States with n Bose particles
Emission and absorption of photons
The blackbody spectrum
Liquid helium
The exclusion principle
Spin One
Filtering atoms with a Stern-Gerlach apparatus
Experiments with filtered atoms
Stern-Gerlach filters in series
Base states
Interfering amplitudes
The machinery of quantum mechanics
Transforming to a different base
Other situations
Spin One-Half
Transforming amplitudes
Transforming to a rotated coordinate system
Rotations about the z-axis
Rotations of 180° and 90° about y
Rotations about x
Arbitrary rotations
The Dependence of Amplitudes on Time
Atoms at rest; stationary states
Uniform motion
Potential energy; energy conservation
Forces; the classical limit
The ``precession'' of a spin one-half particle
The Hamiltonian Matrix
Amplitudes and vectors
Resolving state vectors
What are the base states of the world?
How states change with time
The Hamiltonian matrix
The ammonia molecule
The Ammonia Maser
The states of an ammonia molecule
The molecule in a static electric field
Transitions in a time-dependent field
Transitions at resonance
Transitions off resonance
The absorption of light
Other Two-State Systems
The hydrogen molecular ion
Nuclear forces
The hydrogen molecule
The benzene molecule
Dyes
The Hamiltonian of a spin one-half particle in a magnetic field
The spinning electrons in a magnetic field
More Two-State Systems
The Pauli spin matrices
The spin matrices as operators
The solution of the two-state equations
The polarization states of the photon
The neutral K-meson
Generalization to N-state systems
The Hyperfine Splitting in Hydrogen
Base states for a system with two spin one-half particles
The Hamiltonian for the ground state of hydrogen
The energy levels
The Zeeman splitting
The states in a magnetic field
The projection matrix for spin one
Propagation in a Crystal Lattice
States for an electron in a one-dimensional lattice
States of definite energy
Time-dependent states
An electron in a three-dimensional lattice
Other states in a lattice
Scattering by imperfections in the lattice
Trapping by a lattice imperfection
Scattering amplitudes and bound states
Semiconductors
Electrons and holes in semiconductors
Impure semiconductors
The Hall effect
Semiconductor junctions
Rectification at a semiconductor junction
The transistor
The Independent Particle Approximation
Spin waves
Two spin waves
Independent particles
The benzene molecule
More organic chemistry
Other uses of the approximation
The Dependence of Amplitudes on Position
Amplitudes on a line
The wave function
States of definite momentum
Normalization of the states in x
The Schrodinger equation
Quantized energy levels
Symmetry and Conservation Laws
Symmetry
Symmetry and conservation
The conservation laws
Polarized light
The distintegration of the λ
Summary of the rotation matrices
Angular Momentum
Electric dipole radiation
Light scattering
The annihilation of positronium
Rotation matrix for any spin
Measuring a nuclear spin
Composition of angular momentum
Added Note 1: Derivation of the rotation matrix
Added Note 2: Conservation of parity in photon emission
The Hydrogen Atom and The Periodic Table
Schrodinger's equation for the hydrogen atom
Spherically symmetric solutions
States with an angular dependence
The general solution for hydrogen
The hydrogen wave functions
The periodic table
Operators
Operations and operators
Average energies
The average energy of an atom
The position operator
The momentum operator
Angular momentum
The change of averages with time
The Schrodinger Equation in a Classical Context: A Seminar on Superconductivity
Schrodinger's equation in a magnetic field
The equation of continuity for probabilities
Two kinds of momentum
The meaning of the wave function
Superconductivity
The Meissner effect
Flux quantization
The dynamics of superconductivity
The Josephson junction
Feynman's Epilogue
Appendix
Index