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This introductory chapter has two purposes. The first is to provide a brief résumé of the quantum theory that is assumed to be familiar to the reader and, in particular, those results that are used later. A deep discussion of the foundations of quantum mechanics will not be given and in this chapter the results will be quoted without proof; the justification for this policy is that there are a number of excellent texts available. Nevertheless, some of the mathematics employed in this presentation is discussed in more detail later. For example, an acquaintance with vector and matrix algebra is assumed here, although Chapter 2 is devoted to this subject.
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Moss, R.E. (1973). Non-relativistic Quantum Mechanics. In: Advanced Molecular Quantum Mechanics. Studies in Chemical Physics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5688-9_1
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