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Lectures

• 25 March (Recording) -- Identical particles:  Multiparticle states, evolution of multiparticle states, permutation symmetry, indistinguishable particles, 2 electron system (Sakurai Ch 6, Shankar Ch 10)
• 29 March (Recording) -- Identical particles:  more than 2 particles, anyons, Young tableaux (Sakurai Ch 6, Shankar Ch 10)
• 1 April (Recording) -- Identical particles:  Helium atom, periodic table, nuclear shell model (Sakurai 6.4, Shankar 13.4)
• 5 April (Recording) --  Symmetries:  Continuous symmetries + conservation laws, groups, parity (Sakurai 4, Shankar 11)
• 6 April (Recording) -- Symmetries:  Parity (Sakurai 4, Shankar 11)
• 12 April (Recording) --  Symmetries: Time reversal (Sakurai 4, Shankar 11)
• 15 April (Recording Part 1 and Part 2)  --  Symmetries: Lattice translation (Sakurai 4)
• 19 April --  No class
• 22 April -- Midterm Exam 1 (Symmetries, identical particles)
• 26 April -- Scattering:  Introduction, cross sections, 2-body kinematics
• 29 April -- Scattering: Green's function methods -- Lippmann-Schwinger equation (Sakurai 7.1)
• 3 May -- Scattering: Born approximation, Optical Theorem (Sakurai 7.2-7.3)
• 6 May --  Scattering: Partial waves & phase shifts (Shankar 19.5, Sakurai 7.6)
• 10 May --   Scattering: Partial waves -- Hard Sphere  (Sakurai 7.6-7.7)
• 13 May --  Scattering: Partial waves -- Finite spherical well / barrier, Resonance scattering, scattering of identical particles (Sakurai 7.7-7.9)
• 17 May --  Scattering: Symmetry considerations (Sakurai 7.10), Coulomb scattering (Weinberg 7.9)
• 20 May --  Scattering: Eikonal approximation (Shajesh notes), General Scattering Theory - S-matrix and Dyson Formula (Weinberg)
• 24 May -- Scattering:  General Scattering -- S-matrix, Born, Fermi's golden rule, optical theorem (Weinberg)
• 27 May -- 
• 31 May -- 
• 3 June -- Corpus Christi (no class?)
• 7 June -- Midterm Exam 2 (Scattering)
• 10 June
• 14 June
• 17 June
• 21 June
• 24 June
• 28 June
• 1 July -- Final Exam?
• 6 July
• 8 July -- End of semester

• ??? --  Quantum information theory:  Classical information theory, Shannon entropy, joint entropy, mutual information, source coding theorem, density matrix (Grazioso, Nielsen & Chuang)
• ??? --  QIT: density matrix, quantum measurement, discerning (non-)orthogonal states (Grazioso, Nielsen & Chuang)
• ??? --  QIT:  quantum complementarity, Holevo theorem, no-cloning theorem; applications -- black hole information paradox (Grazioso, Nielsen & Chuang)
• ??? --  QIT: applications -- quantum cryptography (Nielsen & Chuang, Mertz,   Stumpf)

• Full lecture notes: 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

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