Phys 434 Quantum Physics 3 Fall 2013

Lectures: M, W, F 8:30 - 9:20 am, RCH 204 Tutorials and extra lectures TUT 101: W 4:30 - 5:20 pm DWE 1515

Instructor: Dr. Eduardo Martin-Martinez Email: emmfis@gmail.com / emartinm@uwaterloo.ca Website: https://sites.google.com/site/emmfis Oces: QNC 4318 / Perimeter Institute 407 Oce hours: M,W 5:00-6:00 pm at QNC 4318,

Teaching Assistants: Feiruo Shen and Darryl Hoving Email: feiruo.shen@uwaterloo.ca Oce: RAC1 2117 Tutorials: As stated above

Purpose. This course will introduce students to advanced topics in quantum mechanics, both from the foundational viewpoint and the applied perspective. The students will get familiarized with the tools of time-independent and time-dependent perturbation theory and its applications, learn about symmetries and conservation laws in quantum mechanics and understand the building blocks of modern quantum theory. We shall revisit content seen in past courses from a more modern perspective and will discuss how to incorporate special relativity to quantum mechanics. Texts. J. J. Sakurai and J. J. Napolitano, Modern Quantum Mechanics. Second Edition, Addison-Wesly, 2010. This is the main text of the course. Although we are going to have our own course notes, this is the book of reference for blocks 3 to 7 and partially for the rst 2 blocks. S. Weinberg, The quantum theory of Fields. First Edition, Volume 1, Cambridge University Press, 2005. Quite advanced reference but useful for blocks 8 and 9. M. O. Scully and M. S. Zubairy, Quantum Optics. First Edition, Cambridge University Press, 1997. A good reference for block 10. M. Nielsen and I. Chuang, Quantum Computation and Quantum Information. 10th Anniversary Edition, Cambridge
University Press, 2011.

Reference for the -block. Course website. https://sites.google.com/site/emmfis/teaching/phys434 Assignments Midterm Exam Final Exam
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Grading Scheme.

Assignments. Homework assignments will be posted on the course website as announced in class. They will be typically collected in the rst lecture a week after they were posted. The lowest assignment grade will be dropped. This policy leaves room for students to miss an assignment for any reason without penalty whatsoever. In exchange, there will be no make-up assignments for any reason, and no late assignments will be accepted.

Tentative Schedule.
Block 1 Topic Reviewing the foundations of quantum mechanics and understanding the notation in QM: Inner product. Hilbert spaces. Linear functionals and dual space. Usefulness and purpose of the Bra-Ket notation. Outer product and projectors. Orthonormal bases and self-adjoint operators. The spectral theorem. Revisiting the postulates of quantum mechanics. Basic representation theory in QM. Symmetries in quantum mechanics. Derivation of the Schr oedinger equation from the symmetries of Galileian spacetime. Conservation laws. Quantum dynamics. Heisenberg and Schr oedinger pictures. Review of time-independent perturbation theory. Degenerate and nondegenerate. The Interaction picture. Time-depdendent perturbation theory (TDPT). Transition rates and Fermis golden rule. Applications of TDPT: Harmonic perturbations, Semiclasical lightmatter interaction. Absorption and stimulated emission. The photoelectric eect. Hamiltonians with extreme time dependence: Adiabatic and sudden approximation. Geometric phases. The Aharonov-Bohm eect. Relativistic Quantum Mechanics The Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations. Klein Paradox. The problem of localization. The need for Quantum Field Theory Second quantization of the electromagnetic eld in free space. The quantum vacuum. The Lamb shift. Introduction to the light-matter interaction Bonus topic: Density matrices, multipartite states, quantum entanglement theory, decoherence and quantum information.

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