Quantum Science

Celebrate the 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology with important works on quantum mechanics and theory, selected by RCL subject editors. Resources for College Libraries (RCL) features core titles for academic libraries, curated by Choice/ACRL subject specialists. In this list, preview a selection of the 90,000+ titles available at rclweb.net.

Updated June 30, 2025
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Cosmological Koans : a journey to the heart of physical reality
Aguirre, Anthony
Paper Book
Cosmological Koans invites the reader into an intellectual adventure of the highest order. Through more than fifty Koans--pleasingly paradoxical vignettes following the ancient Zen tradition--leading physicist Anthony Aguirre takes the reader across the world from West to East...
Absolutely small : how quantum theory explains our everyday world
Fayer, Michael D.
Paper Book
Physics is a complex, even daunting topic, but it is also deeply satisfying--even thrilling. And liberated from its mathematical underpinnings, physics suddenly becomes accessible to anyone with the curiosity and imagination to explore its beauty. Science without math? It's not...
101 quantum questions : what you need to know about the world you can't see
Ford, Kenneth William
Paper Book
This reader-friendly, richly illustrated book provides an engaging overview of quantum physics, from "big ideas" like probability and uncertainty and conservation laws to the behavior of quarks and photons and neutrinos, and on to explanations of how a laser works and why black holes evaporate.
Quantum computing for everyone
Bernhardt, Chris
Paper Book
An accessible introduction to an exciting new area in computation, explaining such topics as qubits, entanglement, and quantum teleportation for the general reader. Quantum computing is a beautiful fusion of quantum physics and computer science, incorporating some of the most stunning...
Introduction to quantum mechanics
Griffiths, David J.
Paper Book
Changes and additions to the new edition of this classic textbook include a new chapter on symmetries, new problems and examples, improved explanations, more numerical problems to be worked on a computer, new applications to solid state physics, and consolidated treatment of time-dependent...
Understanding Our Unseen Reality: Solving Quantum Riddles
Kastner, Ruth E.
Paper Book
"The riddles of quantum mechanics and the failure of modern physics to reach consensus on an interpretation continues to be a fascinating topic to the profession and the public alike. The elaboration and extension of the transactional interpretation by the author of this book is a timely development...
Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat: How Two Great Minds Battled Quantum Randomness to Create a Unified Theory of Physics
Halpern, Paul
Paper Book
"A fascinating and thought-provoking story, one that sheds light on the origins of . . . the current challenging situation in physics." -- Wall Street Journal When the fuzzy indeterminacy of quantum mechanics overthrew the orderly world of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Erwin...
Quantum computing from the ground up
Perry, Riley Tipton.
Paper Book
Quantum computing -- the application of quantum mechanics to information -- represents a fundamental break from classical information and promises to dramatically increase a computer's power. Many difficult problems, such as the factorization of large numbers, have so far resisted attack by...
Philosophy of physics : quantum theory
Maudlin, Tim
Paper Book
A sophisticated and original introduction to the philosophy of quantum mechanics from one of the world's leading philosophers of physics In this book, Tim Maudlin, one of the world's leading philosophers of physics, offers a sophisticated, original introduction to the...
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Quantum Interpretations
Hartz, Thiago
Paper Book
Crucial to most research in physics, as well as leading to the development of inventions such as the transistor and the laser, quantum mechanics approaches its centenary with an impressive record. However, the field has also long been the subject of ongoing debates about the foundations and...

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