Quantum Theory and Quantum Measurement - Fall 2026

10-Week class

Description

• Class Description(PDF)

Class Lecture Notes

• 1-Beginning Ideas(PDF)
• 2-Simple Introduction via Experiments(PDF)
• 3-Mathematical Language(PDF)
• 4-Stern-Gerlach Experiments(PDF)
• 5-Quantum Postulates(PDF)
• 6-Explicit Time Dependence
• 7-Entanglement, EPR and Bell(PDF)
• 8-Quantum Measurement(PDF)
• 9-Review: Quantum Measurement(PDF)
• 10-A Play that Derives Quantum Theory(PDF)
• 11-Quantum Polarization(PDF)
• 12-Schrodinger Equation(PDF)
• 13-Principle of Least Action(PDF)
• 14-Feynman's Path to Schrodinger(PDF)
• 15-My Final Thoughts on Quantum Measurement - A Short Summary (PDF)

All Lectures in One Volume (62 MB)

• All Lectures in one PDF (PDF)

Supplementary Reading Material(not covered in class)

• 16-An Alternative Approach to Measurement(PDF)
• 17-Summary of Quantum Postulates(PDF)
• 18-All Mathematics Notes(PDF)
• 19-The Einstein-Bohr-God Debate(PDF)
• 20-The Saga of Two Gloves.(PDF)
• 21-Light and Interference(PDF)
• 22-The Gambler's Ruin Problem and Quantum Measurement(PDF)
• 23-Repeat of Time Evolution Derivation(PDF)
• 24-Decoherence and Quantum Measurement(PDF)
• 25-The Born Rule - Axiom or Result?(PDF)
• 26-Development-Interpretation of Quantum Theory - Heisenberg(PDF)
• 27-Taking Heisenberg's Potentia Seriously - Epperson(PDF)
• 28-Fluctuations, particles and entanglement: solving quantum measurement(PDF)
• 29-Sidney Coleman - Another Way(PDF)
• 30-Mathematics: Density Matrix and Decoherence(PDF)
• 31-Other Sources - Cohen and Jauch(PDF)