Course

Unit I

Historical Perspective of Quantum Physics: Failure of classical mechanics – Planck-Einstein, Bohr-de Broglie-

Heisenberg’s Uncertainty.

Unit II

Empirical confirmations of Wave Particle Duality. Schrödinger Equation – Particle in a box-Tunneleffect.

Unit III

Paradoxes in QM – de Broglie paradox – Schrödinger’s cat, Mach-Zhender type interferometers – EPR paradox

– Bell-type Inequalities.

Unit IV

Various interpretations – Statistical, Copenhagen, Bohm’s formulation, Transactional, Wheeler’s Participatory

Universe, Many World, Decoherence, consciousness interpretation.

Unit V

Uncertainty-Nonlocality, Holistic universe, Violations of causality-Retro influence-Philosophy of Advaitha(non-Duality).

1. Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness by Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner (Aug 1, 2011)
2. The New Physics and Cosmology Zanjoc, Oxford 2004