Fall, 1998

Physics 631 Graduate Quantum Mechanics


Instructor: Stephen Hsu, 475 Williamette, hsu@duende.uoregon.edu, 346-5128

 TEXTS:             
         Required: Sakurai, Modern Quantum Mechanics 
	  R. Shankar, Principles of Quantum Mechanics 

 references: Landau and Lifshitz, Schiff, Dirac, etc.


PREREQUISITES:   Undergraduate QM; Classical Mechanics and Electromagnetism; 
			Linear Algebra and Differential Equations


OUTLINE :  


I. Foundations: Schrodinger Equation; Operators and Matrices; Hilbert space; 
Classical limit and Uncertainty; Path Integrals; Harmonic Oscillator


II. Angular Momentum and Spin


III. Symmetries


IV. 3D systems; Hydrogen Atom; WKB methods; Perturbation theory

 
V. Time-dependent Perturbation theory; Fermi's Golden Rule


VI. Identical Particles
 

VII. Scattering Theory


VIII. Relativistic Quantum Mechanics: Dirac and Klein-Gordon
equations; propagators  (time permitting)