Physics 624: Quantum II

Right photo, October 1927, Fifth Solvay International Conference: A. Piccard, E. Henriot, P. Ehrenfest, E. Herzen, Th. de Donder, E. Schrödinger, J.E. Verschaffelt, W. Pauli, W. Heisenberg, R.H. Fowler, L. Brillouin, P. Debye, M. Knudsen, W.L. Bragg, H.A. Kramers, P.A.M. Dirac, A.H. Compton, L. de Broglie, M. Born, N. Bohr, I. Langmuir, M. Planck, M. Sklodowska-Curie, H.A. Lorentz, A. Einstein, P. Langevin, Ch.-E. Guye, C.T.R. Wilson, O.W. Richardson

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Instructor: Roland E. Allen

1-979-845-4341, Room M213 MIST

allen@tamu.edu, http://faculty.physics.tamu.edu/allen/Phys624.html

Office hours: Monday 3-4 p.m., Tuesday 3-4 p.m., Wednesday 4-5 p.m.; or by appointment.

This course will meet at 5:45 - 7:00 p.m. Monday and Wednesday in Room 213 (MPHY).

Textbook: Second half of Lectures on Quantum Mechanics, by Gordon Baym, with supplementary material from Modern Quantum Mechanics (called S below) and Advanced Quantum Mechanics (called S' below) by J.J. Sakurai.

Evaluation:

Homework 35%

2 exams 40%

final exam (comprehensive) 25%

Homework is due at the beginning of class each Wednesday. Homework late by < 48 hours, 1/2 credit. Homework late by > 48 hours, no credit.

The exams will be at night (7:00 p.m.) in Room 203 (MPHY):

Monday, February 23; Thursday, April 16; Wednesday, May 6.

Note that the final exam is scheduled for Wednesday, May 6, at 7:00-10:00 p.m. in Room 203, prior to the nominal university time.

Exam 1 as pdf , solution to Exam 1 as pdf

Exam 2 as pdf , solution to Exam 2 as pdf

Final Exam as pdf , solution to Final Exam as pdf

An optional 10 minute talk can be given for extra credit equal to 3/2 homework sets (i.e. 150 homework points):

Monday, May 4, 5:30 p.m. (until potentially midnight with 32 talks), in Room 213.

HOMEWORK:

January 28: 12.4 (a), 12.4 (b) (first part only, not slow turn-on), S 5.23(a), S 5.23 (b), obtain (12-46) from (12-44)

February 4: S 5.24, 12.2 (counts as two problems), 12.4 (b) for slow turn-on (both nonresonant and resonant cases)

February 11: S 5.25, S 5.26, S 5.36, Problem3a.pdf

February 18: S 5.30 (a), S 5.30 (b), S 5.34, Baym 13.1

March 4: S 5.35, S 5.38, S 5.39, S 5.40 (2p to 1s including detailed numerical evaluation), S' 2.6 (2-photon 2s to 1s without numerical evaluation)

March 11: Obtain Baym Eq. (13-115); S' 2-1, S' 2-3, S 3.5

March 25: Baym 14.1 (a); S 3.14, S 3.15, S 3.16

April 1: S 3.1, S 3.6, S 3.8; in Baym, derive (6-62) by using (6-34) and (6-48), and noting (6-55)-(6-58) plus (6-60)

April 8: S 3.2, S 3.3, S 3.4, S 3.17

April 15: S 3.7, S 3.9, S 3.10, S 3.19

April 22: S 3.24, S 4.2, S 4.3, S 4.7, S 4.8

April 29: Galitski et al. 15.21, 15.22, 15.24 [Dirac equation]