| Week |
Lect |
Date |
Topics |
Reading+Homework |
| 1 |
1-4 |
April 1-5 |
Energy-Shift and Decay Width
Identical Particles : Fermions and Bosons
Slater Determinant
Energy of Ground state of Helium
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Read : 5.8, 6.1-6.4 (Sakurai)
Assign 1 : due next Friday
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| 2 |
5-8 |
April 8-12 |
Excited states of Helium
Screening, variational approach
Thomas-Fermi equation
Fermi-levels
Intro to Scattering
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Read : 6.4 (Sakurai)
Assign 2 : due next Friday
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| 3 |
9-12 |
April 15-19 |
Lippmann-Schwinger Equation
Born Approximation
Higher order terms
The T-operator
Optical Theorem
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Read : 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 (Sakurai)
Assign 3 : due next Friday
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| 4 |
13-16 |
April 22-26 |
Partial Waves
Hard Sphere Scattering
Finite Square-Well Scattering
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Read : 7.5, 7.6, 7.7 (Sakurai)
Assign 4 : due next Friday
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| 5 |
17-20 |
April 29 -May 3 |
Ramsauer-Townsend Effect
Effective Range Theory, low-lying bound states
Resonances
Dispersion Relations
Coulomb Scattering
Scattering of Identical Particles
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Read : 7.7 7.10 (Sakurai)
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| 6 |
21-24 |
May 6-10
Wednesday May 8 = Midterm |
Inelastic Scattering
electron-atom scattering
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Assign 5 : due next Friday
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| 7 |
25-26 |
May 13-17 |
neutron-proton scattering
neutron- H2 scattering
Time-reversal invariance
Anti-Unitary Operators
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Read : 4.4 (Sakurai)
Assign 6 : due next Friday
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| 8 |
27-29 |
May 20-24 |
Time-Reversal for integer and half-integer systems
Implications for Electric Dipole Moments
Klein-Gordan Equation
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Assign 7 : due next Friday
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| 9 |
30-33 |
May 27-31 |
Monday May 27 = holiday
Dirac Equation, Gamma-matrices
Klein Paradox
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Assign 8 : due next Friday
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| 10 |
34-36 |
June 3-7 |
Covariance of Dirac Equation
Spin Operator
Non-Relativistic Reduction
Anti-Particles
Fields and Causality
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11
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Finals Week : June 10-14
Final Exam
8:30-10:20 a.m Monday, June 10
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