Physics papers

Sixty-three topics from the basic papers of quantum physics: the main question of each topic and plain-language summaries of its key papers. The aim is to give what these papers say in our own words, staying close to the source and adding no commentary; reading them side by side with other texts is left to the reader.

Each summary states the paper's question, what it did and its result; experiment, theory and interpretation are kept apart. Summaries written without looking at the paper's own abstract or text are marked. Every paper's citation is given with a source link; Sources page as well.

Groups

• I. Foundations of quantum mechanics5 topics · 12 papers
• II. Entanglement and reality5 topics · 6 papers
• III. Quantum information5 topics · 9 papers
• IV. Quantum computation5 topics · 6 papers
• V. Quantum field theory3 topics · 4 papers
• VI. Quantum statistics3 topics · 5 papers
• VII. Topological quantum systems5 topics · 5 papers
• VIII. Quantum and thermodynamics3 topics · 4 papers
• IX. Quantum and gravity4 topics · 5 papers
• X. Current big problems12 topics · 26 papers
• XI. Basic phenomena and the birth of the theory7 topics · 21 papers
• XII. Interpretations and collapse2 topics · 4 papers
• XIII. States of matter, the vacuum and particles4 topics · 13 papers

Total: 63 topics, 120 papers. Timeline · Parallel reading table