A First Introduction to Quantum Physics

• Main Author: Kok, Pieter (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics,
• Subjects: Quantum physics.; Physics.; Quantum field theory.; String theory.; Mathematical physics.; Quantum Physics.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.; Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences.

In this undergraduate textbook, the author develops the quantum theory from first principles based on very simple experiments: a photon travelling through beam splitters to detectors, an electron moving through a Stern-Gerlach machine, and an atom emitting radiation. From the physical description of...