nLab Werner Heisenberg

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Selected writings

Introducing quantum mechanics in the form of matrix mechanics:

• Werner Heisenberg, Über quantentheoretische Umdeutung kinematischer und mechanischer Beziehungen, Zeitschrift für Physik 33 (1925) 879–893 [doi:10.1007/BF01328377, Engl. pdf]

and recognizing the matrices in matrix mechanics:

• Max Born, Werner Heisenberg, Pascual Jordan: Zur Quantenmechanik. II., Z. Physik 35 (1926) 557–615 [doi:10.1007/BF01379806]

Introducing the uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics:

• Werner Heisenberg: Über den anschaulichen Inhalt der quantentheoretischen Kinematik und Mechanik, Zeitschrift für Physik 43 (1927) 172–198 [doi:10.1007/BF01397280, pdf]

  (where it is announced as equation (1) and established as equation (6))

with English translation (or something close) in

• The actual content of quantum theoretical kinematics and mechanics, NASA Technical Memorandum NAS 1.15:77379 (1983) [pdf, pdf]

Introducing what came to be known as the Heisenberg spin chain model:

• Werner Heisenberg: Zur Theorie des Ferromagnetismus, Zeitschrift für Physik 49 (1928) 619–636 (1928) [doi:10.1007/BF01328601]

Introducing the Schwinger effect of vacuum polarization:

• Werner Heisenberg, Hans Euler, Folgerungen aus der Diracschen Theorie des Positrons, Z. Physik 98, 714–732 (1936) (doi:10.1007/BF01343663)

On quantum physics and the potentiality of quantum states:

• Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy – The Revolution in Modern Science, Harper & Brothers (1958) [archive]

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