| Date |
Tuesday |
Thursday |
| Jan. 26 |
Time-independent perturbation theory (S11, L22) |
|
| Jan.31, Feb.2 |
degenerate perturbation theory |
Stark
effect (S14.2, L23) |
| Feb. 7,9 |
Relativistic
corrections, a.k.a. fine structure (S12,L24) |
fine structure,
|njlm_j> basis, Weyl eqn. |
| Feb. 14, 16 |
Hyperfine
structure, Lamb shift |
Hyperfine
structure, Zeeman
effect |
| Feb. 21,23 |
Zeeman's
experiment, Lamb shift experiment, addition of
angular momentum examples; electric quadrupole hyperfine
structure |
Identical particles, Multi-electron
atoms (S13, L27-32) |
| Feb.28, Mar.2 |
multi-electron atoms | Hartree-Fock method (S13.3, L31), ... |
| Mar. 7,9 |
Hund's rule (S13.5, L32); Thomas-Fermi model of
atom (S13.4, L30); molecules
(S15) |
molecules
(Born-Oppenheimer approximation, H_2+, H_2, variational
methods, ortho & para hydrogen: effect of nuclear
spin on rotational states and spectra) (S15, L28) |
| Mar. 14,16 |
molecules (more on
approximations, C_2 and O_2 molecules) (S15, M Alexander notes supplement) (snow day! we had to skip this) |
Midterm exam |
| spring break |
||
| Mar. 28,30 |
Spin
resonance
(TJsupplement, L14) |
Time-dependent perturbation theory (S16.3, L33) |
| Apr. 4,6 |
photoelectric effect (L34) |
photoelectric
effect, continued; quantum
electrodynamics (S16.4.1,2) |
| Apr. 11,13 |
spontaneous
emission, multipole expansion, selection rules
(S16.4, L41) |
multipole expansion, selection rules (cont'd) |
| Apr. 18,20 |
Scattering
theory
(S18, L35) |
Born approximation |
| Apr. 25,27 |
Partial wave expansion | Partial wave expansion |
| May 2,4 |
low energy scattering |
Density matrix, entanglement (Preskill notes) |
| May 9,11 |
quantum state teleportation, GHZ state, violation of "local reality" |
quantum error correction |
| Wednesday May 17 |
Final exam 10:30am - 12:30 pm |