PHYS 4410
Spring 2023
Quantum Mechanics 2
Course Information:
Lectures:
- Lecture 1 (January 20): Harmonic oscillator: heuristic analysis
- Lecture 2 (January 23): Harmonic oscillator: algebraic solution
- Lecture 3 (January 25): Harmonic oscillator: solving problems
- Lecture 3X (January 25): Harmonic oscillator: series solution
- Lecture 4 (January 27): Harmonic oscillator: higher dimensions
- Lecture 5 (January 30): Multiple particles
- Lecture 6 (February 1): Parity symmetry
- Lecture 7 (February 3): Bosons and fermions
- Lecture 8 (February 6): Three or more bosons or fermions
- Lecture 9 (February 8): The Fermi gas
- Lecture 10 (February 10): Discrete translation symmetry: finite chain
- Lecture 11 (February 13): Discrete translation symmetry: infinite chain
- Lecture 12 (February 17): Metals and insulators
- Lecture 13 (February 20): Continuous translation symmetry
- Lecture 14 (February 22): Rotational symmetry
- Lecture 15 (February 24): Angular momentum algebra
- Lecture 16 (February 27): Symmetry in two particle systems
- Lecture 17 (March 1): The hyperfine interaction
- Lecture 18 (March 3): Angular momentum addition
- Lecture 19 (March 6): Clebsch-Gordan coefficients
- Lecture 20 (March 8): The variational principle
- Lecture 21 (March 10): Exchange interactions
- Lecture 22 (March 13): The helium atom
- Lecture 23 (March 15): The Born-Oppenheimer approximation
- Lecture 24 (March 17): Time-independent perturbation theory: introduction
- Lecture 25 (March 20): Time-independent perturbation theory: first order
- Lecture 26 (March 24): Time-independent perturbation theory: second order
- Lecture 27 (April 3): Time-independent perturbation theory: degenerate
- Lecture 28 (April 5): Symmetry-breaking perturbations
- Lecture 29 (April 7): Time-dependent perturbation theory
- Lecture 30 (April 10): Fermi's golden rule
- Lecture 31 (April 12): Emission of electromagnetic radiation
- Lecture 32 (April 14): Selection rules
- Lecture 33 (April 17): The WKB approximation
- Lecture 34 (April 19): The Bohr-Sommerfeld approximation
- Lecture 35 (April 21): Tunneling
- Lecture 36 (April 24): Metastable states
- Lecture 37 (April 26): The adiabatic theorem
- Lecture 38 (April 28): Landau-Zener transitions
- Lecture 39 (May 1): Berry phase
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