Essential math for quantum mechanics

Oscar Nieves
7 min readJan 19, 2023

All the things you need to know.

Quantum mechanics — and by extension quantum field theory — is a subfield of physics concerned with studying the dynamics of single and many-particle systems at the quantum scale, often designated as “quantum systems” which can encompass fundamental particles (e.g. quarks, leptons, bosons), atoms and even molecules (which is the focus of quantum chemistry). At this…

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Oscar Nieves

I write stories about applied math, physics and engineering.