| 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 |
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| March 11 |
Two-state atoms coupled to quantized modes |
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| March 13 |
Rabi oscillations with spontaneous decay |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |