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Lecture · Stanford
David Miller Quantum Mechanics Courses · David A. B. Miller
A segment of David Miller's Stanford quantum mechanics course that sets up the oscillator's Schrödinger equation and its solutions. At 19 minutes it is a much shorter pass at section 2 than the 81-minute MIT lecture in the Lecture Hall; check that his energy levels come out evenly spaced, starting at ½ħω.
Lecture · MIT
MIT OpenCourseWare · Barton Zwiebach
From MIT's 8.04 Quantum Physics I (Spring 2016): the creation (raising) and annihilation (lowering) operators applied to the state on each rung, which is section 5's first paragraph done on the board. It makes a compact companion to the briefing's 78-minute operator lecture; look for where the √(n + 1) and √n factors come from.
Lecture · MIT
MIT OpenCourseWare · Allan Adams · 2013
The lecture from MIT 8.04 Quantum Physics I (Allan Adams, 2013) that goes with Chapter 13. The whole course is in the Lecture Hall.
Lecture · MIT
MIT OpenCourseWare · Robert Field · 2017
The lecture from MIT 5.61 Physical Chemistry (Robert Field, 2017) that goes with Chapter 13. The whole course is in the Lecture Hall.
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 13. The whole course is in the Lecture Hall.
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.
Course · MIT
MIT OpenCourseWare · Robert Field · 2017
Quantum mechanics as chemists use it, taught by the spectroscopist Robert Field: the photoelectric effect and Compton scattering, boxes and oscillators, hydrogen and many-electron atoms. Strong on spectroscopy, the experimental face of quantization.
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.
Explainer · YouTube
Parth G
Parth G starts from an ordinary spring and builds up to its quantum version, explaining why physicists keep reaching for the harmonic oscillator. Watch with two questions in mind, both answered in full this session: why do the quantum energy steps come out exactly equal, and why is the lowest step not zero?
Explainer · YouTube
PBS Space Time
A tour of the quantum vacuum's zero-point energy, best watched after section 7: the Casimir force between metal plates, the gulf between predicted and observed vacuum energy, and why free-energy machines and vacuum-powered drives cannot work. Treat its virtual particles as a picture rather than literal little balls, and keep this chapter's verdict in hand: zero-point energy is real and measurable, but it is the floor of the ladder, not a power source anyone can tap.