List of Important Publications in Physics - Quantum Mechanics

Quantum Mechanics

See also: Quantum mechanics and History of quantum mechanics
  • Planck, Max (1901). "Ueber das Gesetz der Energieverteilung im Normalspectrum " (in German) (PDF). Annalen der Physik 309 (3): 553–563. Bibcode 1901AnP...309..553P. doi:10.1002/andp.19013090310. http://www.physik.uni-augsburg.de/annalen/history/historic-papers/1901_309_553-563.pdf.
  • — (1901). "On the Law of Distribution of Energy in the Normal Spectrum" (PDF). Annalen der Physik 4: 553 ff. http://bourabai.kz/articles/planck/planck1901.pdf.
Introduced Planck's law of black body radiation in an attempt to interpolate between the Rayleigh–Jeans law (which worked at long wavelengths) and Wien's law (which worked at short wavelengths). He found that the above function fit the data for all wavelengths remarkably well. This paper is considered to be the beginning of quantum theory and discovery of photon.
  • Dirac, P. A. M. (1930). The Principles of Quantum Mechanics.
Quantum mechanics as explained by one of the founders of the field, Paul Dirac. First edition published on 29 May 1930. The second to last chapter is particularly interesting because of its prediction of the positron.
  • Griffiths, David J. (2004). Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (2nd ed.). Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-111892-7.
A how-to for Quantum Mechanics aimed at the physics undergraduate.

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