Lecture notes

Dates

Topics

lecture1

1/18

Review/Background. Zoom:

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lecture2

1/20

Symmetries. Zoom: see above.

lecture3

1/25

Angular momentum, spin, SU(2)

lecture4

1/27

Spherical Harmonics, QM of a central potential

lecture5

2/1

Addition of angular momentum, Wigner-Eckart

lecture6

2/3

Perturbation theory, non-degenerate/ Convergence issues and examples

lecture7

2/8

Degenerate perturbation theory More examples - spin orbit/fine structure/hyperfine structure

lecture8

2/10

Time dependence and the interaction picture

lecture9

2/15

Two state solvable model/NMR,

lecture10

2/17

Time dependent perturbation theory and the Dyson series, forced SHO

lecture11

2/22

Fermi Golden Rule and examples.

lecture12

2/24

Absorption cross-section, photoelectric effect

lecture13

3/1

Quantizing E&M

lecture14

3/3

Spontaneous decay

lecture15

3/8

Adiabatic approximation and Berry's phase

lecture16

3/10

Scattering, Lippmann Schwinger

3/15

Spring break

3/17

Spring break

lecture17

3/22

Born approximation, Optical Theorem

lecture18

3/24

Partial wave scattering

lecture19

3/29

Low energy scattering

lecture20

3/31 

Scattering and resonances

lecture21

4/5

High energy limit - Eikonal limit

lecture22

4/7

Intro to many body physics

lecture23

4/12 

Permutation symmetry, Exchange interaction

lecture24

4/14

Second quantization, field operators

lecture25

4/19

More on field operators, Fermi statistics and greens functions

lecture26

4/21

lecture27

4/26 4/28 5/3

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lecture29