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General Principles of Quantum Mechanics

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  • © 1980

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  1. Wolfgang Pauli
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. The Uncertainty Principle and Complementarity

    • Wolfgang Pauli
    Pages 1-12

  3. Schrödinger Equation and Operator Calculus

    • Wolfgang Pauli
    Pages 13-41

  4. Stationary States and the Eigenvalue Problem

    • Wolfgang Pauli
    Pages 42-53

  5. Matrix Mechanics

    • Wolfgang Pauli
    Pages 54-66

  6. Theory of Measurements

    • Wolfgang Pauli
    Pages 67-78

  7. Approximation Methods

    • Wolfgang Pauli
    Pages 79-102

  8. Identical Particles, Spin and Exclusion Principle

    • Wolfgang Pauli
    Pages 103-129

  9. Semiclassical Theory of Radiation

    • Wolfgang Pauli
    Pages 130-144

  10. The Relativistic One-Particle Problem

    • Wolfgang Pauli
    Pages 145-176

  11. Quantum Electrodynamics

    • Wolfgang Pauli
    Pages 177-204

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 205-212
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About this book

I am very happy to accept the translators' invitation to write a few lines of introduction to this book. Of course, there is little need to explain the author. Pauli's first famous work, his article on the theory of relativity in the Encyklopädie der Mathematischen Wissenschaften was written at the age of twenty. He afterwards took part in the development of atomic physics from the still essentially classical picture of Bohr's early work to the true quantum mechanics. Thereafter, some of his work concerned the treatment of problems in the framework of the new theory, especially his paper on the hydrogen atom following the matrix method without recourse to Schrodinger's analytic form of the theory. His greatest achievement, the exclusion principle, generally known today under his own name as the Pauli principle, that governs the quantum theory of all problems including more than one electron, preceded the basic work of Heisenberg and Schrodinger, and brought him the Nobel prize. It includes the mathematical treatment of the spin by means of the now so well­ known Pauli matrices. In 1929, in a paper with Heisenberg, he laid the foundation of quantum electrodynamics and, in doing so, to the whole theory of quantized wave fields which was to become the via regia of access to elementary particle physics, since here for the first time processes of generation and annihilation of particles could be described for the case of the photons.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: General Principles of Quantum Mechanics

  • Authors: Wolfgang Pauli

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61840-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1980

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-09842-3Published: 01 October 1980

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-61840-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 212

  • Additional Information: The original German edition appeared as Band 5, Teil 1 of: Handbuch der Physik

  • Topics: Quantum Physics, Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics

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