| Week |
Lect |
Date |
Topics |
Reading+Homework |
| 1 |
1-4 |
March 31-April 4 |
Identical Particles : Fermions and Bosons
Slater Determinant
Energy of Ground state of Helium
Excited states of Helium
Screening, variational approach
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Read : Chapter 14
Assign 1 : due next Friday
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| 2 |
5-8 |
April 7-11 |
Thomas-Fermi equation
Fermi-levels
Intro to Scattering
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Read :
Assign 2 : due next Friday
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| 3 |
9-12 |
April 14-18 |
Lippmann-Schwinger Equation
Born Approximation
Higher order terms
The T-operator
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Read : Chapter 8
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| 4 |
13-16 |
April 21-25 |
Optical Theorem
Partial Waves
Hard Sphere Scattering
Finite Square-Well Scattering
Ramsauer-Townsend Effect
Effective Range Theory, low-lying bound states
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Read : Chapter 8
Assign 3 : due next Friday
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| 5 |
17-20 |
April 28 -May 2 |
Resonances
Dispersion Relations
Coulomb Scattering
Scattering of Identical Particles
Inelastic Scattering
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| 6 |
21-24 |
May 5-9
Monday May 5 = Midterm |
electron-atom scattering
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| 7 |
25-26 |
May 12-16 |
neutron-proton scattering
neutron- H2 scattering
Time-reversal invariance
Anti-Unitary Operators
Time-Reversal for integer and half-integer systems
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| 8 |
27-29 |
May 19-23 |
Implications for Electric Dipole Moments
Klein-Gordan Equation
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| 9 |
30-33 |
May 26-30 |
Monday May 26 = holiday
Dirac Equation, Gamma-matrices
Klein Paradox
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| 10 |
34-36 |
June 2-6 |
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 9-13
Final Exam
10:30-12:20 a.m Tuesday, June 10
in PAB B123 and 125
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