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MITPhysics8.06

Quantum Physics III

planned·~168 hours total

Professors

  • Barton Zwiebach
  • Aram Harrow

Textbook

  • Modern Quantum Mechanics

    J. J. Sakurai, Jim Napolitano · 3rd · ISBN 9781108473224

Prerequisites

Materials

Advanced topics — variational principle, WKB approximation, scattering, identical particles continued, intro to quantum information and density matrices.

Syllabus

  1. Week 1

    Scattering theory — central potentials

  2. Week 2

    Partial wave analysis; phase shifts

  3. Week 3

    Born approximation

  4. Week 4

    Resonant scattering

  5. Week 5

    Density matrix; mixed states

  6. Week 6

    Open quantum systems; decoherence

  7. Week 7

    Quantum information primer — qubits and gates

  8. Week 8

    Bell inequalities; entanglement

  9. Week 9

    Quantum teleportation; dense coding

  10. Week 10

    EPR paradox; hidden variables

  11. Week 11

    Path integrals — introduction

  12. Week 12

    Relativistic QM — Klein-Gordon and Dirac