Dirac Notation

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Questions

• What are the advantages of Dirac notation over the mathematicians’ notation for inner product spaces?

Reading List

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

Last updated 5 September 2024