Max Born - Selected Journal Literature

Selected Journal Literature

While links have been provided in this article to journal publications by Born, a few of his papers are worth highlighting here along with citations to translations in English.

Matrix Mechanics A trilogy of papers launched the matrix mechanics formulation of quantum mechanics:

  • W. Heisenberg, Über quantentheoretische Umdeutung kinematischer und mechanischer Beziehungen, Zeitschrift für Physik, 33, 879-893, 1925 (received 29 July 1925).
  • M. Born and P. Jordan, Zur Quantenmechanik, Zeitschrift für Physik, 34, 858-888, 1925 (received 27 September 1925).
  • M. Born, W. Heisenberg, and P. Jordan, Zur Quantenmechanik II, Zeitschrift für Physik, 35, 557-615, 1926 (received 16 November 1925).

Probability Density The now-standard interpretation of the probability density function for ψ*ψ in the Schrödinger equation of quantum mechanics was published by Born in the first of these two papers, and it is this for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954. The second paper is a continuation and extension of the analysis provided in the first paper.

  • Max Born (1926). "Zur Quantenmechanik der Stoßvorgänge". Zeitschrift für Physik 37 (12): 863–867. Bibcode 1926ZPhy...37..863B. doi:10.1007/BF01397477. http://www.springerlink.com/content/h06w8465t710u328/. Retrieved 16 December 2009.
  • Max Born (1926). "Quantenmechanik der Stoßvorgänge". Zeitschrift für Physik 38 (11–12): 803–827. Bibcode 1926ZPhy...38..803B. doi:10.1007/BF01397184. http://www.springerlink.com/content/m7k1x3k105233551/. Retrieved 18 December 2009. "English translation in: Gunther Ludwig, editor, Wave Mechanics (Pergamon, 1968) ISBN 08-103204-8. Under the title: Quantum Mechanics of Collision Processes"

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