Spring 2002

Good work with the final! Solutions posted. Thanks, Roni!

Lecture notes on Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking posted.

This course is a continuation of 221A in Fall 2001 Semester. It introduces more advanced aspects of Quantum Mechanics.

Lectures: Mon Wed Fri 9:00-10:00, 308 LeConte

Discussion section: Tu 11-12 (395 LeConte), Wed 5-6 (9 Lewis)

Homeworks: weekly, due Fridays, 5pm

Exams: one Midterm, one Final

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Office: 447 Birge, 50A-5109 (LBNL)

Office Hours: Fri 10-12

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221A

• Scattering Theory
• Many-Body Problems
• Quantization of Radiation Field
• Relativistic Quantum Mechanics

• "Modern Quantum Mechanics," J. J. Sakurai, Addison and Wesley (1985).
• "Advanced Quantum Mechanics," J. J. Sakurai, Addison and Wesley (1967).
• "Quantum mechanics," by Albert Messiah, Amsterdam, North-Holland Pub. Co. (1961).
• "Quantum mechanics : non-relativistic theory," by L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz, 3rd ed., rev. and enl., Oxford, New York, Pergamon Press (1977).
• On atomic and molecular physics, classic books are "Introduction to Quantum Mechanics," by Linus Pauling and E. Bright Wilson, McGraw-Hill (1935); "Quantum Theory of Matter," by John C. Slater, McGraw-Hill, 1968.
• On nuclear physics, ``Theoretical Nuclear Physics," by Amos deShalit and Herman Feshbach, New York, Wiley, 1974; ``Subatomic Zoo," by Hans Frauenfelder and Ernest M. Henley, Prentice-Hall, Inc., NJ, 1974.
• "Superfluidity and Superconductivity," by D.R. Tilley and J. Tilley, Graduate Student Series in Physics, IOP Publishing Ltd, 1990.

• Scattering Theory I. A movie referred to in the note and the Mathematica program used to generate it.
• Scattering Theory II.
• Scattering Theory III (revised).
• Multi-body Problems I.
• Multi-body Problems II (Atomic Physics).
• Multi-body Problems III (Molecular Physics).
• Multi-body Problems IV (Nuclear Physics).
• Quantum Field Theory I.
• Quantum Field Theory II (Bose Systems).
• Quantum Field Theory III (Fermi Systems).
• Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking.
• Quantum Field Theory IV (Radiation Field).
• Relativisic Quantum Mechanics.
• Quantum ElectroDynamics.

• HW #1 and solutions
• HW #2, solutions and Notebook.
• HW #3, solutions and Notebook.
• HW #4 and solutions
• HW #5 and solutions
• HW #6 and solutions and a notebook
• Midterm. Solutions for Problem 1, Problem 2, and Problem 3. Also a Notebook file for the Heitler-London and Morse potentials.
• HW #7 and a password-protected version with data here, and solutions.
• HW #8, and solutions.
• HW #9, and solutions.
• HW #10, and solutions.
• Final exam, Solutions (PDF), and detailed of calculations for Problem 1 in (notebook).

• Notes on Spherical Bessel Function (corrected, thanks to Samuel Flores)
• Notes on Contour Integrals
• Notes on Resonance in Classical Mechanics

• "Atomic Energy Levels for the Thomas-Fermi and Thomas-Fermi-Dirac Potential", by Richard Latter, Phys. Rev. 99, 510 (1955).
• "Scattering of 750-MeV Electrons by Calcium Isotopes", by J. B. Bellicard et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. 19, 527-529 (1967).
• "Elastic Electron Scattering from Lead-208 at 175 and 250 MeV", by J. B. Bellicard and K. J. van Oostrum, Phys. Rev. Lett. 19, 242-244 (1967).
• "Spinor condensates and light scattering from Bose-Einstein condensates", by Dan M. Stamper-Kurn and Wolfgang Ketterle, cond-mat/0005001
• "Observation of Stationary Vortex Arrays in Rotating Superfluid Helium", by E. J. Yarmchuk, M. J. V. Gordon, and R. E. Packard, Phys. Rev. Lett. 43, 214-217 (1979).