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Text: Quantum Mechanics: A Modern Development, Leslie E. Ballantine, World Scientific
Course
Outcomes/Rubic:
Two
in-class exams 30%, Final Exam 40%. Homework assignments will be graded
on a pass/fail basis.
Collaboration will be allowed, but submitted assignments cannot not be
duplicated. An overall fail grade on HW can result in a whole grade
demotion (e.g. a B exam average will result in an overall C grade).
Submitted handwritten assignement will not be accepted and
the due dates will be strictly enforced.
Course Outline
Chap. 10 Formation of
Bound States
Chap. 12 Time
Dependent Phenomena
Chap. 16 Scattering Theory
Chap. 17 Identical Particles
Chap. 18 Many-Fermion Systems
Chap. 19 Quantum Electrodynamics
Other Misc. Topics (Density matrices, etc.) if time permits.
Supplementary Texts:
Modern Quantum Mechanics, 2nd Ed. J.J. Sakurai and J. Napolitano,
Pearson Publishing
Quantum Mechanics, Fundamentals, 2th Edition, K. Gottfried and T. M. Yan, Springer
Quantum Mechanics, L. Schiff, 3rd ed. McGraw-Hill
The Principles of Quantum Mechanics, P. A. M. Dirac, 4th ed. Oxford Science Publications
Quantum Theory, D. Bohm, Prentice-Hall
Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, M. A. Nielsen
and I. L.
Chuang
Cambridge University Press
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