Lecture Notes for PHY851/852

Beware! These are in a pretty crude format. Be especially wary of sign errors and twopies.

  1. States and Operators( pdf, ps, gif)
  2. Evolution Operators( pdf, ps, gif)
  3. Coordinate and Momentum Space( pdf, ps, gif)
  4. Potential Problems in One Dimension( pdf, ps, gif)
  5. Wave Packets( pdf, ps, gif)
  6. Harmonic Oscillator( pdf, ps, gif)
  7. Charged Particle and the Electromagnetic Field( pdf, ps, gif)
  8. Aharanov-Bohm Effect( pdf, ps, gif)
  9. Propagators, Green's Functions and Integral Equations( pdf, ps, gif)
  10. Angular Momentum( pdf, ps, gif)
  11. Spherical Harmonics( pdf, ps, gif)
  12. Spherical Harmonics( pdf, ps, gif)
  13. Adding Angular Momentum( pdf, ps, gif)
  14. Symmetries and Conservation Laws( pdf,ps,gif)
  15. Approximation Methods I. (WKB, Variational, Sudden)( pdf,ps,gif)
  16. Approximation Methods II. (Stationary State Perturbation Theory)( pdf, ps, gif)
  17. Time-Dependent Interactions and Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory( pdf, ps, gif)
  18. Scattering: (Born Approximation, $T$-Matrix( pdf, ps, gif)
  19. Praopagators and the Time-Ordered Evolution Equation( pdf, ps, gif)
  20. Scattering: Central Potentials, Partial Waves and Phase Shifts( pdf, ps, gif)
  21. Phase Shifts at Low Energy, Scattering Lengths( pdf, ps, gif)
  22. Coulomb Waves( pdf, ps, gif)
  23. Quantum Fields and Second Quantization( pdf, ps, gif)
  24. Decays( pdf, ps, gif)
  25. Isospin( pdf, ps, gif)
  26. Adding Three Angular Momentum( pdf, ps, gif)
  27. Tensor Operators, Rotation Operators, and the Wigner-Eckart Theorem( pdf, ps, gif)
  28. Fermions and Fermi Gases( pdf, ps, gif)
  29. Symmetrization and Antisymmetrization of Fermionic Wave Functions( pdf, ps, gif)
  30. Interacting Fermions -- The Hartree Fock Approximation( pdf, ps, gif)
  31. Multi-Electron Atoms( pdf, ps, gif)
  32. Slater Determinants and Many-Fermion Wave Functions( pdf, ps, gif)
  33. Molecules and the Adiabatic Approximation( pdf, ps, gif)
  34. Cooper Pairs( pdf, ps, gif)
  35. Landau Levels and the Integral Quantum Hall Effect( pdf, ps, gif)
  36. A Relativistic Wave Equation for Spin-Zero Particles: The Klein-Gordon Equation( pdf, ps, gif)
  37. A Relativistic Wave Equation for Spin-1/2 Particles: The Dirac Equation( pdf, ps, gif)
  38. States without Fixed Particle Number (Relativistic Mass Term, Bogoliubov Operators, Coherent States )( pdf, ps, gif)

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