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The development of spectral theory in the 20th century was motivated in large part by quantum mechanics. In this chapter we develop basic applications of spectral theory to the theory of Schrödinger operators.
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Borthwick, D. (2020). Schrödinger Operators. In: Spectral Theory. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 284. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38002-1_7
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