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MITPhysics8.05

Quantum Physics II

planned·~168 hours total

Professor

  • Barton Zwiebach

Textbook

  • Mastering Quantum Mechanics

    Barton Zwiebach · ISBN 9780262046138

Prerequisites

Materials

Linear algebra formulation of QM, spin, addition of angular momentum, identical particles, perturbation theory.

Syllabus

  1. Week 1

    Linear algebra recap; bras and kets

  2. Week 2

    Hermitian operators; eigenvalues; spectral theorem

  3. Week 3

    Tensor products; spin systems

  4. Week 4

    Spin-1/2; Stern-Gerlach

  5. Week 5

    Spin precession; Pauli matrices

  6. Week 6

    Angular momentum algebra

  7. Week 7

    Addition of angular momenta; Clebsch-Gordan

  8. Week 8

    Identical particles; bosons and fermions

  9. Week 9

    Time-independent perturbation theory

  10. Week 10

    Variational principle

  11. Week 11

    WKB approximation

  12. Week 12

    Time-dependent perturbation theory