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Textbooks

• Required: A Modern Approach to Quantum Mechanics, 2nd Ed., Townsend, 2012.

• Recommended: Quantum Mechanics, The Theoretical Minimum, Susskind, 2014. (See his Lectures)

• The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Feynman, Leighton, and Sands, 2011.

• QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, Feynman, 2006.

Books Used in Past

• Quantum Mechanics, McIntyre, 2012.

• Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, 2nd Ed., Griffiths, 2004.

Classics

• Quantum Theory, Bohm, 1989.

• Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals, Feynman and Hibbs, 2010.

• The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory, Heisenberg, 1949.

• The Principles of Quantum Mechanics, Fourth Ed., Dirac, 1982.

Popular Books: Summer Reading!

• Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality, Manjit Kumar, 2011.

• The Quantum Story: A History in 40 Moments, Jim Baggot, 2011.

• The Age of Entanglement, Louisa Gilder, 2009.

• Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science, David Lindley, 2008.

• Entanglement, Amir D. Aczei, 2003.

• The Infinity Puzzle: Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe, Close, 2011.

• Thirty Years that Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory, Gamow, 1985.

Other popular books

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Readings in QM Interpretation

• An Exchange of Letters in PHYSICS TODAY on Quantum Theory Without Observers [Part One: PHYSICS TODAY, March 1998, 42-46. Part Two: PHYSICS TODAY, April 1998, 38-42]

• Many Worlds FAQ

• On the Interpretation and Philosophical Foundation of Quantum Mechanics Anton Zeilinger 

• Is The Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics satisfactory? 

• An Aristotelian interpretation of quantum mechanics 

• The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics 

• Quantum Nonlocality and the Possibility of Superluminal Effects

• Wave-Particle Dualism and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

• Measurement in quantum mechanics FAQ

EPR Paradox & Bell's Theorem

• The Nature of Reality

• Bell's Theorem, February 1999 by David M. Harrison

• Spooky Action at a Distance - by Gary Felder

• Entangled Choices

• Quantum Entanglement and Bell's Theorem

• The Meaning of Quantum Theory, Baggot, 1992.

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