Lectures

• 9 March -- Identical particles:  Multiparticle states, evolution of multiparticle states, permutation symmetry, indistinguishable particles (Sakurai Ch 6, Shankar Ch 10)
• 12 March -- Identical particles:  2 electron system, more than 2 particles, anyons (Sakurai Ch 6, Shankar Ch 10)
• 16 March -- Identical particles:  Young tableaux,  (Sakurai Ch 6.5)
• 19 March -- Identical particles:  Helium atom, periodic table, nuclear shell model (Sakurai 6.4, Shankar 13.4)
• 23 March -- Symmetries:  Continuous symmetries + conservation laws, groups, parity (Sakurai 4, Shankar 11)
• 26 March -- Symmetries:  Parity (Sakurai 4, Shankar 11)
• 30 March -- Symmetries: Time reversal (Sakurai 4, Shankar 11)
• 2 April -- Symmetries: Time reversal (Sakurai 4, Shankar 11)
• 13 April -- Symmetries: Lattice Translation (Sakurai 4.3)
• 16 April -- Scattering:  Introduction, cross sections, 2-body kinematics
• 27 April -- Scattering: Green's function methods -- Lippmann-Schwinger equation (Sakurai 7.1)
• 30 April -- Scattering: Born approximation, Optical Theorem (Sakurai 7.2-7.3)
• 4 May -- Scattering: Partial waves & phase shifts (Shankar 19.5, Sakurai 7.6)
• 7 May -- Scattering: Partial waves -- Hard Sphere  (Sakurai 7.6-7.7)
• 11 May -- Scattering: Partial waves -- Finite spherical well / barrier, Resonance scattering, scattering of identical particles (Sakurai 7.7-7.9)
• 14 May -- Scattering: Symmetry considerations (Sakurai 7.10), Coulomb scattering (Weinberg 7.9)
• 18 May -- Scattering: Eikonal approximation (Shajesh notes), General Scattering Theory - S-matrix and Dyson Formula
• 21 May -- Scattering:  General Scattering -- S-matrix, Born, Fermi's golden rule, optical theorem
• 25 May -- Quantum information theory:  Classical information theory, Shannon entropy, joint entropy, mutual information, source coding theorem, density matrix (Grazioso, Nielsen & Chuang)
• 28 May -- QIT: density matrix, quantum measurement, discerning (non-)orthogonal states (Grazioso, Nielsen & Chuang)
• 1 June -- QIT:  quantum complementarity, Holevo theorem, no-cloning theorem (Grazioso, Nielsen & Chuang)
• ??? -- QIT:  applications -- black hole information paradox (Grazioso)
• ??? -- QIT: applications -- quantum cryptography (Nielsen & Chuang, Mertz,   Stumpf)

• Sections 1-3: Identical Particles, Symmetries, Scattering

• J.J. Sakurai, "Modern Quantum Mechanics", (chapter numbers refer to Revised edition, not second edition)

• Shankar, Principles of Quantum Mechanics.
• Weinberg, Lectures on Quantum Mechanics

Program