Quantum Mechanics II (2021 semester 1)Lectures: Mondays, Thursdays 14:00-16:00 Discussion: Wednesdays 14:00-1600 Classroom: 2019 (207-C)
T.A. ("Monitor"): Felipe Manoel de Sousa Freitas felipefreitas@usp.br
Prof. Matthew Luzum Office: 3093
Online lecture information
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The password for the Zoom meeting is 848879.
Homework
Exams- Midterm 1 - 22 April
- Midterm 2 - 7 June
- Final Exam - 1 July ??
- 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)
Suggested textbooksMain text - J.J. Sakurai, "Modern Quantum Mechanics", (chapter numbers refer to Revised edition, not second edition)
Other texts - Shankar, Principles of Quantum Mechanics.
- Weinberg, Lectures on Quantum Mechanics
The final grade will be an average of the best 2 out of 3 exams (50% each).
ProgramTentative list of topics: - Identical particles
- Symmetries and conservation laws
- Scattering theory
- Other topics (send me suggestions if you have a preference)
List of possible topics:
WKB approximation, Variational methods, Time-dependent perturbation theory, Identical particles, Scattering theory, S-matrix, Eikonal approximation, Interaction radiation/matter, Canonical formalism, Path integrals, Symmetries and conservation laws, Particles in e/m fields, Entanglement, Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics, Basics of quantum computation, Bell's inequality, Berry phase, Anderson localization.
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