Course syllabus and reading assignments
 
 
Date Subject Sections in Gottfried & Yan
January 19
 Lippmann-Schwinger equation
8.2, 9.2
January 21
Scattering matrix
8.2, 8.3, 9.2
January 23
One-dimensional example
4.4
January 26
Scattering phase shifts
4.4
January 28
no lecture 8.1
January 30
Central potential in three dimensions
8.1, 8.6b
February 2
Feschbach resonance
9.3
February 4
Particles with spin
8.5, 8.6a
February 6
Inelastic scattering; Scattering of identical particles
8.7, 9.3
February 9
Classical electromagnetism
10.1a
February 11
Quantum electromagnetism
10.1b
February 13
Photons
10.1cd
February 16
Uncertainty in electrodynamics
10.2
February 18
Coherent states
10.5b
February 20
Casimir effect
10.3a
February 23
Radiative transitions
10.4
February 25
Multipole radiation
10.4
February 27
Lamb shift 10.3b
March 2
Scattering of photons 10.7
March 4
Resonant scattering of photons 10.8
March 6
Beam splitters
10.5
March 9
Rabi oscillations

March 11
Two-state atoms coupled to quantized modes
 
March 13
Rabi oscillations with spontaneous decay
 
March 23
Many-particle systems
11.1
March 25
Creation and annihilation operators (bosons)
11.2a
March 27
Second quantization (bosons)
11.2c
March 30
Bose-Einstein distribution
11.3a
April 1
Bose-Einstein condensation
11.3c
April 3
Gross-Pitaevski equation
11.4a
April 6
Bogoliubov transformation

April 8
Second quantization (fermions) 11.2bc
April 10
Fermi-Dirac distribution 11.3b
April 13
Hartree-Fock approximation 11.4b
April 15
Lorentz transformations
13.2a
April 17
Klein-Gordon equation
13.1
April 20
Dirac equation
13.2bc, 13.3a
April 22
Lorentz covariance of the Dirac equation
13.2a
April 24
Lorentz transformations
13.2a
April 27
Nonrelativistic limit
13.3c
April 29
Plane wave solutions
13.3d
May 1
Dirac equation and graphene