Dirac Notation

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Questions #

• What are the advantages of Dirac notation over plain old function notation?

Reading List #

• Dirac’s original paper, “A new notation for quantum mechanics” ✔
• Chapter 1 from Andre Lukas’s notes on mathematical methods for physicists ✔
• Andrew Steane’s crisp introduction to Dirac notation
• Sakurai’s Modern Quantum Mechanics §1.2
• Chapter 3 from Griffiths and Schroeter’s Intro to QM
• Hall, QT for Mathematicians §3.12

Last updated 22 October 2024