This course is a continuation of PHY 511 given in the fall semester of 2003. The main part of my lecture will be based on the textbook, J.J. Sakurai, Modern Quantum Mechanics , Addison Wesley. In the remainder of the lecture, I will disscuss in depth a series of selected topics in Quantum Mechanics. The first lecture will be on Tuesday January 27th at 9.50 am in P112.
The following is a list of topics to be discussed in this lecture.
| Tensor Operators | Wigner-Eckart Theorem |
| Symmetries and Conservation Laws | Time Reversal Invariance |
| Time Independent Perturbation Theory | Fine Structure and Zeeman Effect in the Hydrogen Atom |
| Variational Methods | Time Dependent Perturbation Theory |
| Electromagnetic Interactions | Identical Particles |
| Fermions and Bosons | Helium Atom |
| Scattering Theory | Lippmann-Schwinger Equation |
| Born Approximation | Optical Theorem |
| Partial Wave Expansion | Dirac Equation |
| Dirac Sea | Relativistic Effects in the Hydrogen Atom |
| Quantization of the Electromagnetic Field | The Casimir Effect |
| Quantum Chaos | Random Matrix Theory |
| Berry Phase | Quantum Computing |
TA: Simone Giombi
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With regards to holidays we will follow the offical University Calendar