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Course · MIT
MIT OpenCourseWare · Barton Zwiebach · 2016
The same course rebuilt as 115 short segments of roughly ten to twenty minutes, each devoted to one idea, so you can watch exactly the concept a chapter needs. Barton Zwiebach is meticulous: every step on the board is justified.
Course · MIT
MIT OpenCourseWare · Allan Adams · 2013
Allan Adams' celebrated course starts from superposition and the experimental facts, builds the wavefunction, operators and the Schrödinger equation, then tours scattering, hydrogen, identical particles and band structure before closing on entanglement and Bell's theorem. Calculus and a little linear algebra are enough to keep up.
Lecture · Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize · Michel H. Devoret · 2025
"From macroscopic quantum phenomena to artificial atoms": Michel Devoret on how a circuit's quantized energy levels — measured in the same experiments — became the foundation of today's superconducting qubits.
Lecture · MIT
MIT OpenCourseWare · Barton Zwiebach
A ten-minute segment of MIT 8.04 (Spring 2016) that defines the Δ precisely: the standard deviation of an observable in a given state, built from expectation values. It is this section's ensemble definition on the blackboard, a property of the state rather than of any one blurry measurement.
Lecture · MIT
MIT OpenCourseWare · Barton Zwiebach
MIT 8.05, the lecture after the one in the Lecture Hall. It opens on the energy-time relation, read as this section reads it: Δt is how fast a state can change, not a spread of clock readings. Zwiebach then uses the uncertainty principle to put a floor under a ground-state energy, section 6's argument made rigorous. The second half, on diagonalizing operators, is chapter 14 material.
Lecture · MIT
MIT OpenCourseWare · Allan Adams · 2013
The lecture from MIT 8.04 Quantum Physics I (Allan Adams, 2013) that goes with Chapter 8. The whole course is in the Lecture Hall.
Lecture · MIT
MIT OpenCourseWare · Barton Zwiebach · 2013
The lecture from MIT 8.05 Quantum Physics II (Barton Zwiebach, 2013) that goes with Chapter 8. The whole course is in the Lecture Hall.
Lecture · MIT
MIT OpenCourseWare · Barton Zwiebach
An eight-minute segment of MIT 8.04 (Spring 2016) on what the wavefunction means: Born's probability interpretation, stated on the blackboard. Compare his notation with this section's recipe, density |ψ(x)|² times a width gives a probability.
Lecture · MIT
MIT OpenCourseWare · Barton Zwiebach
Zwiebach asks which wavefunctions can be normalized at all and whether a normalized wavefunction stays normalized as time passes: the last paragraph of this section, done properly. It looks ahead to the Schrödinger equation of chapter 10.
Lecture · Oxford
University of Oxford · James Binney · 2009–10
The lecture from University of Oxford Quantum Mechanics (James Binney, 2009–10) that goes with Chapter 9. The whole course is in the Lecture Hall.