Quantum mechanics - Selected Topics

Data is displayed for academic year: 2023./2024.

Lecturers

Assoc. Prof.
Saša Ilijić

Course Description

Historical overview. Quantum mechanical postulates. Quantization of translational and rotational degrees of freedom. Stationary states. Harmonic oscillator in Dirac representation. Phonons and coherent states. Mathematical formalism: operators, observables, Hilbert space. Symmetries and transformations. The Clebsch-Gordan coefficients. Approximative methods: perturbation theory, varionational methods, WKB approximation. Second quantization.

Study Programmes

Postgraduate doctoral study programme

Literature

Jasprit Singh (2008.), Quantum Mechanics, John Wiley & Sons
Nouredine Zettili (2009.), Quantum Mechanics, John Wiley & Sons
B. H. Bransden, Charles Jean Joachain (2003.), Physics of Atoms and Molecules, Pearson Education

For students

General

ID 154849
  Winter semester
6 ECTS
L0 English Level