Momentum and the Free Particle

Peter Woit ()
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Peter Woit: Columbia University, Department of Mathematics

Chapter Chapter 10 in Quantum Theory, Groups and Representations, 2017, pp 139-147 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract We will now turn to the problem that conventional quantum mechanics courses generally begin with that of the quantum system describing a free particle moving in physical space $$\mathbf R^3$$ . This is something quite different from the classical mechanical description of a freeFree particle particle, which will be reviewed in chapter 14 . A common way of motivating this is to begin with the 1924 suggestion by deDe Broglie Broglie that just as photons may behave like either particles or waves, the same should be true for matter particles.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-64612-1_10

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