The Principles of Quantum Mechanics
work by Dirac
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Dirac’s axiomatic approach
- In quantum mechanics: Axiomatic approach
…in a classic textbook entitled The Principles of Quantum Mechanics. (The book, published in 1930, is still in print.) An observable is anything that can be measured—energy, position, a component of angular momentum, and so forth. Every observable has a set of states, each state being represented by an algebraic…
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