Details of PH4101 (Autumn 2013)

Level: 4 Type: Theory Credits: 3.0

Course CodeCourse NameInstructor(s)
PH4101 Quantum Mechanics III Siddhartha Lal

Syllabus
Time evolution, Schroedinger, Heisenberg and interaction pictures, Propagator, Path integrals, Time dependent perturbation, Born and Dyson, Fermi golden rule, Atom-radiation interaction, Transition rates and selection rules, two level atom interacting with a quantized radiation field, Scattering, Identical particles, Helium atom, Fock space, Second quantization, Connection to spin and statistics, Relativistic quantum mechanics, The Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations, Copenhagen and many-world interpretations, Hidden variables and Bell's inequalities, Two level systems and the qubit, Entanglement, Basic quantum information theory.

References
J.J. Sakurai, Modern Quantum Mechanics

Course Credit Options

Sl. No.ProgrammeSemester NoCourse Choice
1 IP 1 Not Allowed
2 IP 3 Core
3 MS 7 Core
4 RS 1 Elective