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We are now ready to put the “mechanics” into quantum mechanics. In this chapter, we shall study basic quantum physics of the simplest motional system: a point-like particle with a single degree of freedom. While it may sound a bit like a “spherical horse in vacuum”, this model turns out to be quite relevant to many practical physical settings, describing their properties surprisingly well. Moreover, the quantum theory of one-dimensional motion will provide us with theoretical tools to study more complex, three-dimensional, motion in the next chapter.
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Lvovsky, A.I. (2018). One-dimensional motion. In: Quantum Physics. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-56584-1_3
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