Physics: Quantum Mechanics

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National Academy Press (free online versions)

• Advanced Epitaxy for Future Electronics, Optics, and Quantum Physics: Seventh Lecture International Science Lecture Series
  Arthur C. Gossard, University of California at Santa Barbara, Organized by the National Research Council and the Office of Naval Research (2000)

PBS - NOVA - The Elegant Universe (October - November 2003)
"Eleven dimensions, parallel universes, and a world made out of strings. It's not science fiction, it's string theory...Brian Greene explains why string theory might hold the key to unifying the four forces of nature."
Sections include: Articles & Interviews ; Slide Shows & Interactives ; Resources ; Links ; Teacher's Guide ; Watch the Program (all three hours are available for viewing online).

Physical Review Letters

• Storage of Light in Atomic Vapor
  "We report an experiment in which a light pulse is effectively decelerated and trapped in a vapor of Rb atoms, stored for a controlled period of time, and then released on demand."
  By D. F. Phillips, A. Fleischhauer, A. Mair, and R. L. Walsworth ; M. D. Lukin, ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

The Quantum Air-Track - (dead link)
"It is a collection of about 30 quicktime "graph movies" which illustrates the scattering of a particle by a fixed potential, or by another particle, in one dimension."
By Andrew Edgar, Physics Dept., Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Quantum Experiments and the Foundations of Physics
"We are are doing research in photonic entanglement and molecular optics to test the most fundamental issues in quantum physics."
By Prof. Anton Zeilinger, Institut f¸r Experimentalphysik, Universit‰t Wien

Quantum Physics Online (English or French)
Sections include: Introduction ; Wave Mechanics ; Q in one Direction ; Q Superposition in one Dimension ; Q superposition in two Dimensions ; Q in three Dimensions ; Spin 1/2.
By Manuel Joffre, Jean-Louis Basdevant, Jean Dalibard, Physics Dept., Polytechnique.

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Supercollider
Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Supercollider (RHIC).

Visual Quantum Mechanics
"The Visual Quantum Mechanics Project, Physics Education Group of Kansas State University's Department of Physics.

Science of Particle Physics - (dead link)
A nice overview of the subject. Topics include elementary particles ; matter and energy ; quantum mechanics ; ElectoWeak force ; color force ; particle accelerators ; particle detectors ; glossary.
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

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