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In this chapter we shall present a circle of ideas aiming at understanding the meaning of quantum systems and quantum phenomenology. The more mathematically-oriented reader, perhaps not so interested in the genesis of QM notions in physics, may skip the sections following the first.
Two are the possible outcomes: if the result confirms the
hypotheses, you only took a measurement. But if the result
contradicts the assumptions, then you made a discovery.
Enrico Fermi
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Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for this work.
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Recall 1 Ã…\(= 10^{-10}m\).
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Another version, developed in parallel by Heisenberg, consists in so-called Matrix Mechanics, which we will not treat.
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This second uncertainty relationship has a controversial status and its interpretation is a much thornier issue than the former’s. We will not enter this territory, and refer to classical textbooks as [Mes99] in this respect.
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Moretti, V. (2017). Phenomenology of Quantum Systems and Wave Mechanics: An Overview. In: Spectral Theory and Quantum Mechanics. UNITEXT(), vol 110. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70706-8_6
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