MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Science Handbook 1996

Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996


Quantum mechanics

Synopsis The relativistic Dirac equation, positrons and the natural occurrence of Pauli's theory of spin. The form of a spin eigenstate, and the observation of interference effects after a rotation by 2[[pi]]. Wavepacket motion and how the analysis of Stern-Gerlach and other experiments leads to the formal Hilbert space structure of quantum theory. Hilbert space as a product space, correlations in problems with more than one particle, particle creation and destruction operators.

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