Quantum Mechanics MOC
Quantum mechanics is the physics of states, measurements, amplitudes, and operators. This folder is a wider-vault landing zone for concepts from Susskind’s Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum, linked back to the existing Susskind source folder without copying long passages.
First route
- Hilbert space — the state space; quantum states are vectors up to normalisation and phase conventions.
- Wavefunction — the position-space form of a quantum state.
- Observable — measurable quantities represented by Hermitian operators.
- Schrodinger equation — time evolution generated by the Hamiltonian operator.
- Uncertainty principle — noncommuting observables cannot have arbitrary simultaneous sharpness.
- Quantum harmonic oscillator — the standard exactly-solvable model with discrete energy levels.
- Entanglement — composite states that cannot be reduced to separate states for each part.
Classical bridges
- Hamiltonian mechanics provides the generator-of-time-evolution pattern.
- Poisson bracket foreshadows quantum commutators.
- Phase space is the classical contrast case: quantum states do not allow exact simultaneous position and momentum points.
- Vector space supplies the linear-algebra language.
Source trail
- Existing local source folder: Susskind The Theoretical Minimum index.
- Reference book name: Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum by Leonard Susskind and Art Friedman.
Keep this MOC lightweight; put examples and traps in the atomic notes.