An Introduction to Quantum Mechanics ... for those who dwell in the macroscopic world

[1201.4234] An Introduction to Quantum Mechanics ... for those who dwell in the macroscopic world Skip to main content Search Submit Donate Log in Search arXiv Press Enter to search · Advanced search Quantum Physics arXiv:1201.4234 (quant-ph) [Submitted on 20 Jan 2012 ( v1 ), last revised 15 Apr 2026 (this version, v4)] Title: An Introduction to Quantum Mechanics ... for those who dwell in the macroscopic world Authors: Antonio Barletta View a PDF of the paper titled An Introduction to Quantum Mechanics ... for those who dwell in the macroscopic world, by Antonio Barletta View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: There is a huge number of excellent and comprehensive textbooks on quantum mechanics. They mainly differ for the approach, more or less oriented to the formalism rather than to the phenomenology, as well as for the topics covered. These lectures have been based mainly on the classical textbook by Gasiorowicz (1974). I must confess that the main reason for my choice of Gasiorowicz (1974) is affective, as it was the textbook where I first learned the basic principles of quantum mechanics. Beyond my personal taste, I now recognize that Gasiorowicz (1974) is still a very good textbook on quantum mechanics, with a rigorous theoretical approach accompanied by a wide collection of applications. If the textbook by Gasiorowicz was my main basis, I have taken much also from other textbooks such as Phillips (2003), as well as from the excellent classical textbook by Dirac (1981). In order to avoid complications in the mathematics and in the notation, the topic is presented in these notes with reference to one-dimensional systems, with just a few marginal extensions to the three-dimensional formulation. Comments: 33 pages, 5 figures Lecture notes of an introductory course on quantum mechanics for engineering PhD students, held at the PhD School of Mechanics and Advanced Engineering Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy (February 2023) Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph) ; Physics Education (physics.ed-ph) Cite as: arXiv:1201.4234 [quant-ph] (or arXiv:1201.4234v4 [quant-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1201.4234 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Submission history From: Antonio Barletta Prof. [ view email ] [v1] Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:54:23 UTC (125 KB) [v2] Thu, 18 Feb 2016 19:08:17 UTC (125 KB) [v3] Wed, 8 Feb 2023 15:58:19 UTC (125 KB) [v4] Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:36:29 UTC (126 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled An Introduction to Quantum Mechanics ... for those who dwell in the macroscopic world, by Antonio Barletta View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: quant-ph < prev | next > new | recent | 2012-01 Change to browse by: physics physics.ed-ph References & Citations INSPIRE HEP NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer ( What is the Explorer? ) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers ( What is Connected Papers? ) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps ( What is Litmaps? ) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations ( What are Smart Citations? ) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv ( What is alphaXiv? ) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers ( What is CatalyzeX? ) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub ( What is DagsHub? ) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub ( What is GotitPub? ) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face ( What is Huggingface? ) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast ( What is ScienceCast? ) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate ( What is Replicate? ) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces ( What is Spaces? ) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI ( What is TXYZ.AI? ) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower ( What are Influence Flowers? ) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender ( What is CORE? ) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs . Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax ( What is MathJax? ) We gratefully acknowledge support from our major funders , member institutions , , and all contributors. About · Help · Contact · Subscribe · Copyright · Privacy · Accessibility · Operational Status (opens in new tab) Major funding support from

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