The Development of Elementary Quantum Theory

• Main Author: Capellmann, Herbert (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology,
• Subjects: Physics.; History.; Quantum physics.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Quantum Physics.; History of Science.

This book traces the evolution of the ideas that eventually resulted in the elementary quantum theory in 1925/26. Further, it discusses the essential differences between the fundamental equations of Quantum Theory derived by Born and Jordan, logically comprising Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Optics,...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction and Outline
• The Fundamental Differences Between Classical and Quantum Physics
• Planck’s Quantum Hypothesis and Einstein’s Contributions to the Foundations of Quantum Theory
• The ”Old Quantum Theory
• The Quantum Theory of Born, Heisenberg, and Jordan
• Continuous Representations of the New Quantum Laws
• The Consequences of the Basic Quantum Laws on Wave Phenomena and Quantum Uncertainties
• Early Opposition to the Copenhagen Interpretation
• Orthodox Portrayals of the Development of Quantum Mechanics, Comparison and Differences
• Later Criticism of the Copenhagen Interpretation.