Advanced Quantum Mechanics (Ph.D. program)

Announcements: List of problems for the exam.

Lectures (.pdf files) Lectures without .pdf files are based on the Sakurai book.
Thursdays, 9:55 - 11:30, A-0-13

1. and 2. Trajectories in QM (6.10 and 13.10)
3. Brownian motion (13.10 and 20.10)
4. and 5. Random walks and their descendants (draft: to be corrected) (27.10 and 3.11)
6. and 7. Gaussian functional integrals (10.11 and 17.11.)
8. and 9. Semiclassical approximation of path integrals (1.12. and 8.12.)
10. and 11. Semiclassical Euclidean amplitudes (15.12. and 22.12.)
12. General functional transition amplitudes (12.1. and 19.1.)
13. and 14. Perturbation theory (19.1. and 26.1.)
15. Application of the golden formula (2.03.)
16. Transition amplitudes for charged particles and Lippmann-Schwinger equation(*) (9.03.)
17. Transition operator, cross-section, optical theorem (16.03)
18. Eikonal approximation, partial waves. (23.03)
19. Optical theorem, Argand plots, Breit-Wigner formula (03.04, shifted from 30.03)
20. Scattering in time dependent approach, inelastic scattering, formfactors (06.04)
21. Schroedinger's cat (20.04)
22. Bell inequality (04.05)
23. Statistical mechanics: introduction (11.05)
24. Polaron 1 (18.05)
25. Polaron 2 (25.05)
26. Density matrix for identical particles (29.05)
27. Boson condensation (1.06)


(*) - lectures 16 - 20 follow the book by Sakurai, Advanced Quantum Mechanics

Problem sets for Winter semester 2016/2017
Thursdays, 8:15 - 9:45, A-0-13

Organizational meeting, October 6, 2016
Set #1 October 13, 2016
Set #2 October 20, 2016
Set #3 October 27, 2016
Set #4 November 3, 2016
Set #5 November 10, 2016
Set #6 November 17, 2016
Set #7 shifted to December 1, 2016
Set #8 December 8, 2016
Set #9 December 15, 2016
Set #10 December 22, 2016
Set #11 January 5, 2017
Set #12 January 12, 2017
Set #13 January 19, 2017
Set #14 January 26, 2017


Problem sets for Summer semester 2016/2017
Thursdays, 8:15 - 9:45

Set #15 March 2, 2017
Set #16 March 9, 2017
Set #17 March 16, 2017
Set #18 March 23, 2017
Set #19 March 30, 2017
Set #20 April 6, 2017
Set #21 April 20, 2017
Set #22 April 27, 2017 (shifted to May 4)
Set #23 May 11, 2017
Set #24 May 18, 2017
Set #25 May 25, 2017
Set #26 June 1, 2017
Set #27 June 8, 2017



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