Lectures in Quantum Mechanics

"Lectures in Quantum Mechanics" is a comprehensive textbook based on a series of university lectures on non-relativistic quantum mechanics. It covers a wide range of topics, from the emergence of quantum mechanics to the fine structure levels of heavy atoms. The author, Luigi E. Picasso, highlights the crisis of classical physics and the fundamental ideas of significant scientists such as Einstein, Bohr, and de Broglie, who were crucial to the development of quantum mechanics. The book offers an inductive presentation of the postulates of quantum mechanics, supported by real experiments, such as neutron interferometry, and discusses their essential consequences, particularly in atomic physics. A concluding chapter is dedicated to the paradoxes of quantum mechanics and the still open questions, including Bell's Theorem and Aspect's experiments. This structured approach has already proven to be very popular among students in the Italian edition and complements the workbook "Problems in Quantum Mechanics.".