C668: Special Topics in Physical Chemistry (Advanced Quantum Mechanics)
| Instructor | |
|---|---|
| Srinivasan S. Iyengar | iyengar@iu.edu |
Review of analytically solvable problems
- Particle-in-a-box
- Simultaneous additional reading: Linear algebra
- Harmonic Oscillator
- Harmonic oscillator revisited: Dirac’s approach and introduction to Second Quantization
- The Hydrogen Atom
- Simultaneous additional reading: Angular Momentum
- Simultaneous additional reading: Spherical coordinates and Harmonics
Foundations
- Probability Current or flux, the continuity equation and definition of magnetization.
- The Stern Gerlach experiments
- Simultaneous additional reading: Representation theory and quantum mechanics
- Simultaneous additional reading: Operators-I
- Simultaneous additional reading: Spin matrices
- Simultaneous additional reading: Change of Basis
- Simultaneous additional reading: The concept of measurment of quantum mechanics
- The postulates of quantum mechanics
- Uncertainty