Fall 2018 - PHYS 810 G100
Advanced Quantum Mechanics (3)
Class Number: 1130
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Sep 4 – Dec 3, 2018: Mon, Wed, Fri, 9:30–10:20 a.m.
Burnaby
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Instructor:
Malcolm Kennett
malcolmk@sfu.ca
1 778 782-4826
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Prerequisites:
PHYS 415, or equivalent.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
Advanced non-relativistic and some basic relativistic quantum mechanics: symmetries, Schroedinger/Heisenberg pictures, mixtures, variational and perturbative methods, Dirac equation.
COURSE DETAILS:
– Review of linear vector spaces and operators, Hilbert spaces
– States and observables, entanglement
– Symmetries and conservation laws
– Squeezed and coherent states
– Angular momentum; rotations
– Perturbation theory and variational methods
– Time dependent phenomena
– Identical particles
– Relativistic quantum mechanics
Grading
- Problem Assignments 50%%
- Midterm Exam 10%%
- Final Exam 40%%
Materials
MATERIALS + SUPPLIES:
Recommended textbooks:
1) Quantum Mechanics: Fundamentals, K. Gottfried and T.-M. Yang
2) Quantum Mechanics, L.E. Ballentine
3) Principles of Quantum Mechanics, R. Shankar
4) Quantum Mechanics: Non-Relativistic Theory, L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifschitz
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