introduction to quantum mechanics

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General

• Quantum Measurement and Spin. A course at Oregon State University.
• Quantum Ideas. A course at Oxford University. Includes a thorough set of lecture notes.
• The Quantum Challenge: Physics 302. A course at Haverford. Includes links to pdfs of many papers on the foundations of QM.

EPR Paradox and Bell's Theorem

• Albert Einstein, Boris Bodolsky, and Nathan Risen, Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete? Physical Review 47, 777, 1935. The original EPR paper.
• Neils Bohr, Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete? Physical Review 48, 696, 1935. Bohr's response to the EPR paper.
• Arthur Fine, The Einein-Podolsky-Rosen Argument in Quantum Theory, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Winter 2013 Edition, Edward N. Zalta (ed.). A detailed and quite readable account of the EPR argument and responses to it.
• Kurt Jacobs and Howard Wiseman, An Engangled Web of Crime: Bell's Theorem as a Short Story. American Journal of Physics 73, 932. 2005.

The Copenhagen Interpretation

• Jan Faye, Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, The Stanford Encyhclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2008 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed).

Einstein

• A Pais, Einstein and the quantum theory, Reviews of Modern Physics, 51, 864. 1979. A review of Einstein's contributions to quantum theory, philosophical and otherwise. [pdf]