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Quantum Mechanics of a Single Particle I

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This chapter begins the detailed discussion of the behaviour of a single particle in a given potential—the basic example of elementary quantum mechanics—with the description of the properties of wave functions and operators at a fixed time.

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Bongaarts, P. (2015). Quantum Mechanics of a Single Particle I. In: Quantum Theory. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09561-5_4

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