Lecture Notes Quantum Mechanics II (PHY512)

Spring 2003, Jacobus Verbaarschot

01-23-2003/L1, Review of Last Semester

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01-28-2003/L2: Time Reversal invariance, anti-unitary operators, Wigner's theorem

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01-30-2003/L3: Kramers degeneracy, Clebsch-Gordon coefficients

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02-04-2003/L4: Clebsch-Gordon coefficients, Vector operators

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02-06-2003/L5: Irreducible tensors, tensor operators, Wigner-Eckhart theorem

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02-11-2003/L6: Tensor operators, Wigner-Eckhart theorem, Variational methods

[p33a] [p34] [p35] [p36] [p37]

02-13-2003/L7: Helium atom, WKB method

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02-20-2003/L8: WKB method: bound states

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02-25-2003/L9: Path integral, Tunnelling, Instantons

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03-04-2003/L10: Time dependent perturbation theory, two state problem spin magnetic resonance, maser

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03-06-2003/L11: Spin magnetic resonance, maser, time dependent perturbation theory, Fermi's golden rule

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03-11-2003/L12: Harmonic perturbation, interaction picture, classical radiation field

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03-13-2003/L13: Dipole approximation, Thomas-Reiche-Kuhn sum rule, photo-electric effect

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03-25-2003/L14: Scattering theory, Green's function

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03-27-2003/L15: Cross section, Born aproximation, optical theorem

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04-01-2003/L16: Optical theorem, eikonal approximation

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04-08-2003/L17: Sperical waves, partial wave expansion, unitarity, phase shifts

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04-10-2003/L18: Phase shifts, hard sphere scattering

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04-15-2003/L19: Finite well, scattering length, poles of S-matrix, resonance scattering symmetries

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04-22-2003/L20: Identical particles, permutations, permutation symmetry, fermions bosons, Slater determinant

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04-24-2003/L21: Young tableaux, Dirac equation

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04-29-2003/L22: Dirac equation, nonrelativistic limit, relativistic covariance

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05-06-2003/L23: Relativistic covariance of Dirac equation

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05-08-2003/L24: Relativistic covariance of Dirac equation, plane wave solutions

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L25: Quantum chaos

L26: Random Matrix theory

Jacobus Verbaarschot
Last revised: February 13, 2003.