Links to quantum mechanics and related physics web sites

Links to quantum mechanics and related physics web sites

General Background information on quantum mechanics and other physics topics

• Wikipedia entry for quantum mechanics (with many links to related topics, concepts, entries)
• The Quantum Exchange
  • "...a collection of information and resources for teachers of quantum physics. The resources in this collection are supplements to standard quantum textbooks and include student activities, background information, and applications."
• Hyperphysics (electricity and magnetism, light and vision, mechanics, quantum physics, etc.)
• The Net Advance of Physics (review articles and tutorials in encyclopedia format)
• Physics Encyclopedia (physics internet resources)
• Physics Archive (archive of papers dealing with many kinds of physics, including quantum physics)
• NIST Reference on Constants, Units and Uncertainty

Research results for quantum mechanics

• arXiv.org e-print repository (for quantum physics) (Research papers dealing with all aspects of quantum theory)
• Qwiki ( quantum wikipedia)
  • "...devoted to the collective creation of technical content for practicing scientists..."

Quantum ideas

• Centre for quantum computation
  • "The Centre for Quantum Computation part of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, conducts theoretical and experimental research into all aspects of quantum information processing, and into the implications of the quantum theory of computation for physics itself."
  • Quantum cryptography tutorial (introductory tutorials on quantum computation and quantum information)

Visualization

• MERLOT/Physics
  • "An online collection of Physics teaching and learning resources that includes:
    • Links to Member-Selected Learning Materials
    • Peer Reviews of High Quality Materials
    • Teaching Experiences of MERLOT Members"
• Visual Quantum Mechanics
  • Explorations of the quantum world for non-science students
• Open Source Physics -- Quantum Mechanics
  • Includes modules on quantum measurement, spin 1/2 systems, superposition, and time evolution of eigenstates and superpositions.
• Visualizations of the Wigner quasi-probability distributions for the infinite square well
  • Additional material for the paper Wigner quasi-probability distributions for the infinite square: Energy eigenstates and time-dependent wave packets (published in Am. J. Phys. 72, 1183 (2004)