General/popular sites for background information on quantum mechanics

• Wikipedia entry for quantum mechanics
  • With many links to related topics, concepts, entries.
• The Quantum Exchange
  • "...a collection of information and resources for teachers of quantum physics. The resources in this collection are supplements to standard quantum textbooks and include student activities, background information, and applications."

Research results for quantum mechanics

• arXiv.org e-print repository (for quantum physics)
  • Research papers dealing with all aspects of quantum theory.
• Qwiki
  • quantum wikipedia "...devoted to the collective creation of technical content for practicing scientists..."

Specific research topics

• Bose - Einstein condensates (BEC)
  University of Colorado site
• Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA) BEC homepage
• Quantum experiments and the foundations of physics
  • Anton Zeilinger group: Matter wave interferometry, photonic entanglement, and quantum information theory

Quantum ideas

• Centre for quantum computation
  • "The Centre for Quantum Computation part of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, conducts theoretical and experimental research into all aspects of quantum information processing, and into the implications of the quantum theory of computation for physics itself."
• Quantum cryptography tutorial

Visualization

• MERLOT/Physics
  • "An online collection of Physics teaching and learning resources that includes:
    • Links to Member-Selected Learning Materials
    • Peer Reviews of High Quality Materials
    • Teaching Experiences of MERLOT Members"
• Visual Quantum Mechanics
  • Explorations of the quantum world for non-science students
• Open Source Physics -- Quantum Mechanics
  • Includes modules on quantum measurement, spin 1/2 systems, superposition, and time evolution of eigenstates and superpositions.
• Visualizations of the Wigner quasi-probability distributions for the infinite square well
  • Additional material for the paper Wigner quasi-probability distributions for the infinite square: Energy eigenstates and time-dependent wave packets (published in Am. J. Phys. 72, 1183 (2004)